On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 14:49 +0530, Krishnaprasad wrote:> I am facing a problem while copying a file to a remote system by
> specifying password in a password file. While trying to copy with
> password file it again prompts for the password.
> what may be the reason
Are you using SSH? --password-file can only be used to give a password
to an rsync daemon, not to SSH. If you want to use SSH without a
password, set up public key authentication; see ssh-keygen.
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