proprietary SSH -> OpenSSH migration and rsync errors

[hindiogine at gmail.com (Salvatore Enrico Indiogine)]

Recently we switched from the proprietary version of ssh to the latest
versions OpenSSH on RH7, 9 and CentOS4.2

When I run rsync over ssh, even sudo, I get permissions errors:

sudo rsync -av --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --delete <source dir>
<user>@<server>:<dest dir>

readlink groups/amatogroup/intranet/FoldingServerOO-dev/trash/foldingServer/Folding.NMA/CVS:
Permission denied

and

opendir(groups/amatogroup/research/shepherding/single/RCS): Permission denied

Any idea?   I did a lot of googling, but nothing that looked useful to me.
Thanks!

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Enrico Indiogine
Parasol Laboratory
Texas A&M University

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