How to configure and use rsyncd?

I have a server configured to run rsync as demon /etc/rsyncd.conf file:

log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock

[documents]
   path = /home/user/work
   comment = User's Documents folder
   uid = user
   gid = user
   read only = no
   auth users = user
   secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

/etc/rsyncd.secrets file:

user:more

on the client side I run:

rsync my_file user@ip_address::documents

and I receive the following error:

@ERROR: auth failed on module documents
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1524) [sender=3.0.7]

On the server I have a root user named user with different password. On the client side I tried both passwords with the same results.

What I'm doing wrong?

Solution 1:

I get the same error and when Im looking in the log file I get this message:

secrets file must not be other-accessible

So probably you have to change the permission of the file.

Solution 2:

Look in /var/log/rsyncd.log. Maybe the perms in your "/etc/rsyncd.secrets " file are too wide.