a few basic questions

Matt McCutchen hashproduct at verizon.net
Thu Feb 16 00:56:19 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:37 -0500, Peter wrote:
> > 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>?

Encryption happens whenever SSH (or another encrypting remote shell) is
used.  On modern rsyncs, SSH is the default for ordinary (single-colon)
remote transfers; it is used unless you specify otherwise.  SSH is used
for daemon (double-colon) remote transfers only if you explicitly
request to do a daemon transfer over SSH using -e/--rsh; the default is
to talk to the daemon directly without a remote shell.
-- 
Matt McCutchen
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