Re: [Proftpd-user] rsync over proftpd ?

> In my use case, proftpd would make a very good file/auth server for 
> rsync.  Is this possible?

This is currently not possible using ProFTPD, no.  rsync, as a protocol, has no specification -- you have to reverse-engineer the implementation in order to determine how it works.  Most rsync installations are done over SSH -- but the rsync protocol itself is not SSH-based.  I've looked at the protocol used by rsync, and while _possible_ to implement, it would take a fair amount of work.  And there are edge cases for which rsync is _horrible_ (specifically, flat directories which tens of thousands of files).

So at this point in time, ProFTPD has no direct support for rsync.

TJ


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