rsync - Jan 2007 - passing rsyncd password in a script (no ssh) - how?

I want to transfer files from a Windows server running rsyncd to a local 
Linux machine. It has no SSH, so I can't use keys.

I need credentials to access files on the rsyncd server, so I thought 
using "expect" to pass a password in a script is the obvious choice:


/usr/bin/expect <<!
set timeout -1
spawn rsync --partial -a rsync://username@server/share/dir /local/copy

expect "Password: "

send "secret_password\n"

expect
!


However, this has a drawback that I loose the exit code produced by 
rsync (I'm no expect guru, so maybe perhaps there is a workaround to that).

What is the recommended way to copy files from a (password-protected) 
rsyncd server in a script?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I want to transfer files from a Windows server running rsyncd to a local 
> Linux machine. It has no SSH, so I can't use keys.
(...)
> What is the recommended way to copy files from a (password-protected) 
> rsyncd server in a script?
Looks like I should use:

export RSYNC_PASSWORD=secret_pass

before starting rsyncd. And to forget about "expect" command :)

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
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