a few basic questions
Matt McCutchen
hashproduct at verizon.net
Thu Feb 16 00:23:17 GMT 2006
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:12 -0500, Peter wrote:
> $ rsync -av -e "ssh -l ssh-user" rsync-user at host::module /dest
>
> Ok, but what happened to the --rsh stuff?
-e is another name for --rsh.
> Are transfers always encrypted or is encryption activated with a specific
> incantation?
Rsync performs no encryption of its own, but if you transfer over SSH,
SSH encrypts the entire rsync data stream.
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Matt McCutchen
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