Getting the path of a remote rsync depot

Question

Hey,

I know if you run in rsync

rsync some.domain.com::

It will return me a list of the rsync depots. Is there any way of getting it to return the details of the depot, the path specifically.

Thanks

Answer 1

No, rsyncd is specifically designed not to reveal the physical path of the modules. Now, if you have shell access to the rsyncd server, you can read /etc/rsyncd.conf for that information.

(But, there may be ways to exploit rsyncd to reveal the path, if the use chroot setting is off. Don't quote me on that, though.)

Answer 2

Ah, rubbish - I was worried about that. I do have shell access, and it's all legit, but if it's not designed to do it that way then fair enough :)

Thanks.