password problem with rsync

[Ron DuFresne]

You then have two choices, well, perhaps one;

rsh and it's issues to combat

or running in deamon mode as root and connecting to the deamon as root.

Both seem ugly to me.  Of course, if you have enough control of the 
'network' and can make sure it's not 'internet' bound and exposed, this 
can be done, as long as you trust the soft chewy center as well as those 
'inside'.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

Payal Rathod wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:15:42PM -0400, Ron DuFresne wrote:
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>>don't invlove the network levels, this is merely a filesystem to 
>>filesystem 'copy', with permission ,ownership retention.  the ley is to 
>>do this uder an account with the proper perms to read the filesystem 
>>totally and use the proper rsync capabilities.  This means as root under 
>>a unix like OS and as administrator or similiar account under M$ OS'.
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>>rsync -${params} /home/accounts  /newhome/accounts
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>But I want them to be copied from one maxchine to another over network.
>In this case what do you suggest?
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>Thanks a lot for the help and bye.
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>With warm regards,
>-Payal
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>>This is almost a cp -pdR or tar type operation.  I have the samething 
>>working from a croned job in a production env at present <smile>.  See, 
>>not only does root/admin account have the perms to read the filesystems 
>>and write to them, but the ability to use restricted params like -o -g, 
>>and since those account levels own everything anyways, no passwd's 
>>required.  And eliminating the overhead of the network, even loopback 
>>seems to actually improve transfer times on LARGE filesystem syncs.  
>>Mine are over 3540gigs.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Ron DuFresne
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>>Payal Rathod wrote:
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>>>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:02:29AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:20:42PM +0530, Payal Rathod wrote:
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>>>>>$ 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:
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>Thanks and bye.
>>>-Payal
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>>>>..wayne..
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