The broken ssh-basic test is fixed in the CVS version of rsync, but not in 2.5.6. It should work in the next release of rsync. You can get the new test from the rsync CVS server easily via the cvsweb interface: http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/testsuite/ssh-basic.test?rev=1.6&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup -- Steve