[Leaplist] rsyncd

Jason Boxman jasonb at edseek.com
Thu Aug 14 11:08:34 EDT 2008


Fred Moore wrote:
> Is anyone running an rsynd daemon?  If so what are the security risks. 
> According to the man page for rsyncd it must run as root?   This
> concerns me.. any comments..Fred

Your data will be sent in the clear, unless you tunnel it with ssh or 
stunnel, for example.


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