passing rsyncd password in a script (no ssh) - how?

[Wojtek.Pilorz]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:42:46 +0100 (CET)
> From: Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke at gwdg.de>
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: passing rsyncd password in a script (no ssh) - how?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > On 1/10/07, Wojtek.Pilorz <wpilorz at bdk.pl> wrote:
> 
> > > secret_pass would no longer be secret on most systems;
> > > Consider using --password-file instead.
> > 
> > I doubt that environment variables are readable by others "on most
> > systems".  On my Linux 2.6.18 system, a process's environment
> > variables are only readable by its owner.  However, I prefer to use a
> > password file anyway.
> 
> Environment variables are shell internals. If you do not 'export' them, 
> not even subshells can see them.

If not exported, would not be seen by rsync, either. So I meant exported 
variables of course. In current Linux systems they are not readable by 
other users, as Matt noted.


> 
> Cheers -e
> 
Regards,

Wojtek