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Moving files with rsync and custom port results in permission denied

skube

5/2/23, 4:22 PM

I'm trying to move some files between servers with rsync and non-standard SSH port. I can login when I just use ssh and supply my password. When I try with rsync I get permission denied. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

This works:

ssh -p 1234 [email protected]

This doesn't:

rsync -azvhP -e "ssh -p 1234" --remove-sent-files /path/to/source/ [email protected]:/path/to/destination/

> Permission denied, please try again.

As a test with scp, this seems to work:

scp -rp -P 1234 /path/to/source/ [email protected]:/path/to/destination/

Any ideas on what's going on or how to troubleshoot?

Note: I also tried saving the options in my ~/.ssh/config

Host my-server
  HostName 192.168.0.123
  Port 1234
  User me

Then tried to rsync with Host friendly name which seems to yield identical results (i.e. asks for password, then errors permission denied).

rsync path/to/source my-server:/path/to/destination
[email protected]'s password:
Permission denied, please try again.

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AlexD

5/3/23, 7:33 AM

You are overriding a username to log into the destination host with [email protected]. You need to override it in the ssh command too - ssh -p 1234 -l me

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skube

5/3/23, 11:29 AM

I tried as you suggested `rsync -azvhP -e "ssh -p 1234 -l me" ...` however I still get permission denied.

AlexD

5/3/23, 11:31 AM

Check the logs on the target server.

skube

5/3/23, 11:45 AM

Perhaps I'm looking at the logs incorrectly, but I only see a log entry when I purposely try an incorrect password. `User [me] from [192.168.0.123] failed to log in via [SSH] due to authorization failure.` When I use the correct password, I'll see permission denied in the terminal, but no log on the target server.

AlexD

5/3/23, 12:16 PM

Are you using a password to authenticate? How do you pass the password to `rsync`?

skube

5/3/23, 12:41 PM

Yes, I'm just using a password for authentication. Basically, after I run `rsync` in the terminal, it prompts me for the password: `[email protected]'s password: Permission denied, please try again.` (I've updated above for more clarity)

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skube

5/3/23, 9:59 PM

I figured it out. The server I was connecting to needed the rsync service to be enabled first. I just would have thought if SSH worked rsync would too. TIL

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