docs: correct rsync-ssl verification caveat

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Zen Dodd committed 2026-10-09 17:12:17 +10:00
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@@ -129,11 +129,9 @@ rsyncd.conf](rsyncd.conf.5#SSL_TLS_Daemon_Setup).
## CAVEATS
Note that using an stunnel connection requires at least version 4 of stunnel,
which should be the case on modern systems. Also, it does not verify a
connection against the CA certificate collection, so it only encrypts the
connection without any cert validation unless you have specified the
certificate environment options.
The stunnel backend requires stunnel 4 or newer. It also requires
`RSYNC_SSL_CA_CERT` unless `RSYNC_SSL_ALLOW_INSECURE_STUNNEL=1` explicitly
opts out of server-certificate validation.
This script also supports a `--type=gnutls` option, but at the time of this
release the gnutls-cli command was dropping output, making it unusable. If