Re: [expert] rsync help

2000-06-02 Thread Allen Bolderoff
The way to not ask for a password, is to cat from the client machine the ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the ~/.ssh/authorized_users file on the server, it will no longer ask for a password when ssh ing from the client to the server as that user. The following command will set this up for you. ssh -l

Re: [expert] rsync help

2000-06-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Christopher Quale wrote: > You might want to look into the "expect" command. It allows you to > interact with programs (similar to writing a ppp script). However, > if you will be putting in passwords, of course be VERY careful > with the read-write permissions on the scripts.

Re: [expert] rsync help

2000-06-02 Thread Christopher Quale
Vincent, You might want to look into the "expect" command. It allows you to interact with programs (similar to writing a ppp script). However, if you will be putting in passwords, of course be VERY careful with the read-write permissions on the scripts. The man page has some info, and I'm sure y

[expert] rsync help

2000-06-02 Thread Vincent Danen
I've got a client that wants to do backups off-site on my machine. I've setup a user pointing to a non-standard home directory /files/backup-client and am using rsync with ssh. I'd like to automate the process somehow, but I don't want to run rsyncd on my system. With ssh it always asks for a p