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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