Mention that the MD4 password protection is weaker than

[rsync/rsync.git] / rsyncd.conf.yo

diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo
index f4d6d2d..3b05a3e 100644 (file)
--- a/rsyncd.conf.yo
+++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 mailto(rsync-bugs@samba.org)
-manpage(rsyncd.conf)(5)(7 Jul 2005)()()
+manpage(rsyncd.conf)(5)(28 Jul 2005)()()
 manpagename(rsyncd.conf)(configuration file for rsync in daemon mode)
 manpagesynopsis()
 
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ system. The usernames may also contain shell wildcard characters. If
 "auth users" is set then the client will be challenged to supply a
 username and password to connect to the module. A challenge response
 authentication protocol is used for this exchange. The plain text
-usernames are passwords are stored in the file specified by the
+usernames and passwords are stored in the file specified by the
 "secrets file" option. The default is for all users to be able to
 connect without a password (this is called "anonymous rsync").
 
@@ -454,16 +454,42 @@ of the patterns will not be compressed during transfer.
 
 The default setting is tt(*.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb *.iso *.bz2 *.tbz)
 
+dit(bf(pre-xfer exec), bf(post-xfer exec)) You may specify a command to be run
+before and/or after the transfer.  If the bf(pre-xfer exec) command fails, the
+transfer is aborted before it begins.
+
+The following environment variables will be set, though some are
+specific to the pre-xfer or the post-xfer environment:
+
+quote(itemize(
+  it() bf(RSYNC_MODULE_NAME): The name of the module being accessed.
+  it() bf(RSYNC_MODULE_PATH): The path configured for the module.
+  it() bf(RSYNC_HOST_ADDR): The accessing host's IP address.
+  it() bf(RSYNC_HOST_NAME): The accessing host's name.
+  it() bf(RSYNC_USER_NAME): The accessing user's name (empty if no user).
+  it() bf(RSYNC_REQUEST): (pre-xfer only) The module/path info specified
+  by the user (note that the user can specify multiple source files,
+  so the request can be something like "mod/path1 mod/path2", etc.).
+  it() bf(RSYNC_EXIT_STATUS): (post-xfer only) rsync's exit value.  This will be 0 for a
+  successful run, a positive value for an error that rsync returned
+  (e.g. 23=partial xfer), or a -1 if rsync failed to exit properly.
+  it() bf(RSYNC_RAW_STATUS): (post-xfer only) the raw exit value from waitpid().
+))
+
+Even though the commands can be associated with a particular module, they
+are run using the permissions of the user that started the daemon (not the
+module's uid/gid setting) without any chroot restrictions.
+
 enddit()
 
 manpagesection(AUTHENTICATION STRENGTH)
 
 The authentication protocol used in rsync is a 128 bit MD4 based
-challenge response system. Although I believe that no one has ever
-demonstrated a brute-force break of this sort of system you should
-realize that this is not a "military strength" authentication system.
-It should be good enough for most purposes but if you want really top
-quality security then I recommend that you run rsync over ssh.
+challenge response system. This is fairly weak protection, though (with
+at least one brute-force hash-finding algorithm publicly available), so
+if you want really top-quality security, then I recommend that you run
+rsync over ssh.  (Yes, a future version of rsync will switch over to a
+stronger hashing method.)
 
 Also note that the rsync daemon protocol does not currently provide any
 encryption of the data that is transferred over the connection. Only
@@ -541,7 +567,7 @@ url(http://rsync.samba.org/)(http://rsync.samba.org/)
 
 manpagesection(VERSION)
 
-This man page is current for version 2.6.6pre1 of rsync.
+This man page is current for version 2.6.6 of rsync.
 
 manpagesection(CREDITS)