Re: rsync, passwords and getting my logs

2003-06-04 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:53:05PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For best results, use a dedicated account, and restrict the commands that can be run in the SSH authorized_keys file. Are you saying that you can limit the commands by some special configuration of the

Re: rsync, passwords and getting my logs

2003-06-04 Thread bscott
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, at 8:56am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For best results, use a dedicated account, and restrict the commands that can be run in the SSH authorized_keys file. Are you saying that you can limit the commands by some special configuration of the authorized_keys file? If so,

Re: rsync, passwords and getting my logs

2003-06-04 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:50:51AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, at 8:56am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For best results, use a dedicated account, and restrict the commands that can be run in the SSH authorized_keys file. Are you saying that you can

Re: rsync, passwords and getting my logs

2003-05-27 Thread brian
'Twere it me, I'd use scp and keys. Makes SSH easier and allows for secure copying without having to dork with passwords. BTW, on a related note, I've been working on the same concept, but am parsing log files from many servers into a MySQL database. Makes for easy lookup of issues, and also

Re: rsync, passwords and getting my logs

2003-05-27 Thread bscott
On 27 May 2003, at 1:37pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured the best way to get the logs would be to use rsync, since i would need to specify a password in the cron/shell script, and I know that rsync supports a password. Don't do that. Instead, use rsync-over-SSH, and use SSH public keys