rsync via ssh script

[Jason Ferguson]

I found this very useful for getting around this problem with osX

http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrzej Filip [mailto:anfi at priv.onet.pl]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:46 AM
To: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: rsync via ssh script


Tim Nonnast wrote:
> does anybody know, how a bash shell script looks, which automatically 
> enters the ssh password?
> 
> the rsync call should be:
> rsync -avz -e ssh /home/johndoe/data/repository 
> billythegate at 192.168.10.102:/home/johndoe/junk
> 
> the call causes a password question.
> 
> Is ist possible to automate that by a cron? If yes how should the script > look to automatically enter the password?

Have you considered using "key authentication" in ssh ?

AFAIK it is a standard way of making ssh session available to cron scripts. The remote site may assign "single command" to session suthenticated with the 
the key.

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