ssh - how to send password ?

[Steve Sills]

What you need to do it setup a key on the remote machine, a tutorial to do
this can be found at http://linuxproblem.org/art_9.html , hope this helps.

Steve Sills
Platnum Computers, President
http://www.platnum.com
steve at platnum.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huw Wyn Jones" <huw at pioden.net>
To: <rsync at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:04 PM
Subject: ssh - how to send password ?


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to learn rsync and to aid this I'm trying some 'simple'
> syncronising over the net using SSH. What I can't find clearly explained
> in the docs is where to put the remote user password in the command line
> argument.
>
> For example I want to sync the two 'documents' directories - one on my
> local Linux box and another on  a server in my office. The command I'm
> planning to use is:
>
> rsync -avz -e ssh /home/huw/documents
> huw at mydomain.co.uk:/home/huw/documents/
>
> What I can't find is where to put the password for the remote user ?
>
> TIA
>
> Huw
>
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