a few basic questions

Peter petermatulis at yahoo.ca
Thu Feb 16 00:37:33 GMT 2006


--- Matt McCutchen <hashproduct at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.

And that is done with '-e "ssh -l ssh-user"' or '--rsh=ssh' or is it done
unless I use --rsh=<non ssh shell>?


	

	
		
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