rsync - Oct 2006 - rsync password problem

I am using rsync with --password-file=passw option.
And I have set the passwod of the remote machine in the passw file
But it stilll asks me password.
How can I avoid this?
It is very urgent and I will ve very pleased for any kind of help.
Thanks in advance.

OA

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On 10/9/06, olcaya@ayesas.com <olcaya@ayesas.com>
wrote:
> I am using rsync with --password-file=passw option.
> And I have set the passwod of the remote machine in the passw file
> But it stilll asks me password.
> How can I avoid this?
Are you using SSH?  --password-file can only be used to supply a
password for an rsync daemon, not for SSH.  To get SSH to log you in
without a password, you need to generate a key that has no passphrase
with ssh-keygen and authorize it for login to the remote machine.

Matt