dan moylan writes: > daniel barrett writes: >> On November 2, 2022, dan moylan wrote: >>> i have two home computers: aldeberan and alphacent, as well >>> as a remote website moylan.us, aka 50.87.218.82. some four >>> years ago (almost) dan ritter gave me instructions for >>> setting up passwordless rsync amongst the lot. it's worked >>> like a charm ever since, except now. alphacent is a new >>> thinkpad T470 and it seems not to work there.
>> A couple of additional things to try: > -> Confirm on alphacent that rsync.key is present in ~/.ssh. > yes, done. >> - Confirm on alphacent that rsync.key is loaded in your ssh-agent >> (ssh-add -l) so your downsync script can use it. > aha! > moylan ~[1026] ssh-add -l > The agent has no identities. > "ssh-add ~/.ssh/rsync.key" did the trick. rsync now > passwordless as desired. > HOWEVER, i went to aldeberan: > moylan ~[1021] ssh-add -l > The agent has no identities. > and yet rsync works passwordless there. (sigh) there is so > much i do not understand, but i'm glad that there are others > who do. BUT -- here's another little oddity. it works fine from the command line prompt, but not in a cron script (where i want to use it). it works in the cron script on aldeberan. ole dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-777-0207 (cel old ng) 857-396-9950 (cel new) [email protected] www.moylan.us [BLM] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
