[Discuss] hosts.equiv

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

bill bogstad wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:02 PM, dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote:

> > > When you run rsync, pass it "-e ssh -i /home/jdm/.ssh/rsync.key"
> > > You should have a fairly safe passwordless rsync.
> >
> >   rsync -e ssh -i /home/moylan/.ssh/rsync.key --archive --delete
> > --compress /home/moylan/bac/ 192.168.0.103:bac
> >
> > still asked for a password.  any idea what i might have
> > missed (or done wrong)?

> 1. Try running ssh with "-v" option and have it tell you why it failed to
> > use other authentication methods.

next time.

> REAL ANSWER***  2. -e takes a single argument.   I believe
> you have to quote the whole thing i.e.

> rsync -e "ssh -i ...." ....

yup, got it.

> Personally, I usually write a trivial shell script to
> encompass all of the ssh arguments that I want and invoke it
> as:

> rsync -e special-ssh-script-for-this-backup

yup, my standard modus operendi, otherwise i never remember
all the options.  all is well now.

tnx all,
ole dan

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