[Gllug] Does one need Rsync server to use Rsync?

[Stephen Nelson-Smith]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Matthew King<matthew.king at monnsta.net> wrote:
> Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It's also got pleasant tcpwrapper-like access control.  You might not
>> want two servers transfering data between each other to have ssh
>> access open between them, but you could allow rsync, and restrict it
>> in a hosts allow statement.
>
> Is rsync-without-ssh still encryptable?

The client/server itself doesn't have any encryption capabiity.  This
is generally why the ssh transport is used if the data being
transferred is vulnerable.  You could, of course, use IPsec or some
other tunnel to get around this, though.

S.

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