password problem with rsync

Payal Rathod payal-rsync at staticky.com
Wed Oct 1 04:14:07 EST 2003


On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:02:29AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> 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.

You may suggest me another way without ssh. I don't want ssh. I didn't
 knew of anyother way.
 I just want to copy few users homedirectories.

 Thanks and bye.
 -Payal

> 
> ..wayne..

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