From: Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com   
      
   On 1/19/26 13:27, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-19 12:45, Pancho wrote:   
   >> On 1/17/26 18:20, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>> On 17/01/2026 13:11, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   >>>> "Carlos E.R."  writes:   
   >>>>> On 2026-01-16 15:57, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 16/01/2026 12:48, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> scp -- wrong. rsync, scp and sftp are all different ways of   
   >>>>>>> transferring files securely over SSH.   
   >>>>>> Are they? even if you run  rsyncd?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If you tell it to connect to an rsyncd then indeed it does not use SSH.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Personally I have never bothered with rsyncd...   
   >>>>   
   >>> Ah. I do. None of my data is private that is being stored remotely   
   >>>   
   >>>>> AFAIK yes, the transfer happens of the ssh port with ssh type of   
   >>>>> encryption. That is what the article says, so take it with a pinch of   
   >>>>> salt. Variances per distributions. It is true in openSUSE.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The zdnet article says nothing about what protocol rsync uses.   
   >>>>   
   >>> I think it is straight streaming of bytes and that is it.   
   >>> Locally i have nfs mounts to move data around.   
   >>>   
   >>> So I don't really use ssh protocols to copy data at all.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I'm currently looking at moving from backing up data on Samba shares,   
   >> to ssh/rsync (due to symlink issues). I fell at the first hurdle of   
   >> how to have root access on both local and remote host. Eventually I   
   >> created a new remote user account with passwordless sudo, specifically   
   >> for rsync. The solution seemed a bit crap. It seemed that such a   
   >> common usecase should be better documented, like I was missing something.   
   >>   
   >   
   > You can configure to access ssh as root without typing a password. With   
   > key pairs, and have an agent remember the phrase for you, or have none.   
   >   
      
   My concern was about having a root account.   
      
   AIUI, modern security advice is to not have an interactive root account,   
   i.e. with a password. So being a good boy, I don't. Whether this   
   strategy is practical in the real world is unclear to me.   
      
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