rsync --rsh not reading .ssh/config

[Bill Moseley]

I've setup up a single-use key on a remote host to run rsync in server
mode.  I've also setup .ssh/config locally with an IdentityFile to
select the single-use ssh key.

This works on my Debian sid machine:

   rsync --rsh="ssh remove_host" ::

But on another machine that command (and others tried below) do not
access .ssh/config.  The machine is running these:

    $ ssh -v 
    OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f

    $ rsync --version
    rsync version 2.4.6  protocol version 24

Again, the problem seems that on this machine .ssh/config is not being
read, but only when ssh is run via rsync.  My guess is this is just a
problem with running the older rsync.  

Is that the case, and is there a workaround other than upgrading
rsync?

Here's some examples of how it's not reading my .ssh/config:


"mysqldump" is the single-use key.  You can see that rsync --rsh=ssh
isn't reading .ssh/config:

$ ls -ltu $HOME/.ssh/config /home/moseley/.ssh/mysqldump
-rw-------    1 moseley  users         668 Nov 11 06:45 /home/moseley/.ssh/mysqldump
-rw-r--r--    1 moseley  users         268 Nov 11 06:45 /home/moseley/.ssh/config

$ rsync -a --rsh="ssh -F $HOME/.ssh/config -i $HOME/.ssh/mysqldump" remotehost::
unknown host: remotehost

$ ls -ltu $HOME/.ssh/config /home/moseley/.ssh/mysqldump
-rw-------    1 moseley  users         668 Nov 11 06:45 /home/moseley/.ssh/mysqldump
-rw-r--r--    1 moseley  users         268 Nov 11 06:45 /home/moseley/.ssh/config


But if I use ssh directly, you can see .ssh/config is used:

$ ssh remotehost
@RSYNCD: 28
^C

$ ls -ltu $HOME/.ssh/config /home/moseley/.ssh/mysqldump
-rw-------    1 moseley  users         668 Nov 11 09:36 /home/moseley/.ssh/mysqldump
-rw-r--r--    1 moseley  users         268 Nov 11 09:36 /home/moseley/.ssh/config


Other things I've tried:

  $ rsync -e ssh remotehost::
  $ rsync --rsh="ssh -i ~/.ssh/mysqldump" moseley at full_host_name.com::
  $ RSYNC_RSH="ssh -i ~/.ssh/mysqldump" rsync moseley at full_host_name.com::




-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org


-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org