password problem with rsync

[Wayne Davison]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:20:42PM +0530, Payal Rathod wrote:
> $ rsync --password-file=pass -e ssh -av legal.txt accounts at 127.0.0.1:/home/accounts
> accounts at 127.0.0.1's password:

Please refer to the ssh documention for how to setup ssh connections
without being prompted (rsync does not do this for you).  Hint:  look at
ssh-agent for one solution.  Note also that the --password-file option
refers to connecting to a remote rsync daemon, which is not what you're
doing.

..wayne..