In order to do rsync over ssh without providing a password, you must be
able to ssh without a password. The --password-file= option is to provide
a password for a rsyncd server (run as rsync --daemon) password. rsync
cannot provide a password to an external transport like ssh or rsh. You
will find that if you do "ssh -l wl 192.1.4.231 uname -a", for
instance,
it will ask for a password. That's where your password prompt comes from.
Here is the relevant section of the man page:"
--password-file
This option allows you to provide a password in a file
SunOS 5.7 Last change: 1 Mar 1999 18
User Commands rsync(1)
for accessing a remote rsync server. Note that this
option is only useful when accessing a rsync server
using the built in transport, not when using a remote
shell as the transport. The file must not be world
readable. It should contain just the password as a sin-
gle line.
"
In the future, you're likely to get your answer faster by going directly
to the rsync@lists.samba.org address, where your question will be seen by
all interested users, and you will probably see more creative answers than
mine.
Good luck.
Tim Conway
tim.conway@philips.com
303.682.4917 office, 3039210301 cell
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D
Longmont, CO 80501
Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, n9hmg on AIM
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???? <wtwl@hust.edu.cn>
07/11/2002 03:10 AM
To: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS@AMEC
cc:
Subject:
Classification:
Hi!
I used such command to backup the content of /home/wl/test from
192.1.4.231 to /tmp/wl on 192.1.4.230:
# rsync -e ssh -vzrtopg --progress --delete wl@192.1.4.231:/home/wl/test
/tmp/wl
it asked me to input the password of wl,I inputed the correct password,and
succeeded.
but why it still asked me to input password when I append the
parameter:--password-file to the command line:
# rsync -e ssh -vzrtopg --progress --delete --password-file=/etc/wl.pass
wl@192.1.4.231:/home/wl/test /tmp/wl
wl@ 192.4.231's password:
the content of wl.pass is the correct password, I don't know how to
solve the problem, I want to write the command to the crontab file, but it
seemed impossible.I saw your article written back to some other's question
on the internet and wish you can help me,thank you very much.
wang li
wtwl@hust.edu.cn
