On 08/15/2010 01:52 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
> A bit snotty for someone asking for help!

Lets not go there, encryption can be a difficult concept for those that haven't ever touched it. I think we tend to forget how some of these things come very easy to us and what we perceive as a push in the right direction is no more than a bunch of computer jargon they have never heard before.

Set up ssh-server on each of your target machines.  Once key
authentication is set up, I generally turn off password authentication,
but that is just my paranoia.  Man for sah-keygen, the how to is right
there.

There is a typo in his explanation, he means ssh-keygen
In a nutshell, you just run the program following the directions given and then copy the contents of id_rsa.pub file that it will create to the next line of the .ssh/authorized_keys file in the home directory of the destination machine. You will probably have to create the file if keys have never been used on the system.

Then man rsync and the switches to tunnel via ssh are right there.

This should be unnecessary as rsync uses ssh by default these days, and has for years.

Brian Cluff
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