ssh & rsync equivalence?

[Morgan Read]

Hello Folks

Can anyone help with why I can use ssh like so:

[root at morgansoldmachine ~]# ssh -t rsync at 192.168.1.40 sudo ssh -i
/home/rsync/.ssh/id_dsa root at 192.168.1.100
Last login: Tue Mar 24
21:32:51 2009 from morgansmachine.lan
[root at morgansoldmachine ~]# logout

Connection to 192.168.1.100 closed.
Connection to 192.168.1.40 closed.
[root at morgansoldmachine ~]#


But, when I use the same command with the -e option via rsync it fails:

[root at morgansoldmachine ~]# ssh -t rsync at 192.168.1.40 sudo rsync
-avzAXHn --delete-after -e 'ssh -i /home/rsync/.ssh/id_dsa' /etc
root at 192.168.1.100:/media/bigdisk/morgansmachine/etc
root at 192.168.1.100's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root at 192.168.1.100's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
root at 192.168.1.100's password:
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password).
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(600) [sender=3.0.5]
Connection to 192.168.1.40 closed.
[root at morgansoldmachine ~]#


I lost all my hair getting ssh sorted, only to have it fail when run via
rsync...

Many thanks,
Morgan.
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Morgan Read
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