Problems using rssh with rsync

[Andrew D. <ad...@tr...>]

We have a server with rssh-2.2.3 on CentOS 3, and tried connecting with 
rsync-3.0.6 from CentOS 5.

I get "insecure -e option not allowed".
When I look a the source for rsync, I find it's adding "-e.s" for some 
reason but I can fix that by using --protocol=26.

I tried building the current version of rssh (2.3.4-1) thinking that maybe 
the problem was fixed. But it's actually worse.

I don't know why rsync is sending "--sender" etc., but it's the standard 
RedHat version of rsync. I'm guessing that rssh is not parsing long options 
properly and is just finding 'e' in --server.

Seeing as rsync is one of the documented commands that works with rssh, 
I'm wondering what's going on.


$ rsync -vv  andrew@myserver:public_html/two/try2.html .
opening connection using: ssh -l andrew trshare rsync --server --sender -vve.s . public_html/two/try2.html

illegal insecure e option
This account is restricted by rssh.
Allowed commands: scp sftp rsync


$ rsync -vv --protocol=26  andrew@myserver:public_html/two/try2.html .
opening connection using: ssh -l andrew trshare rsync --server --sender -vv . public_html/two/try2.html

illegal insecure e option



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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
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