[Discuss] rsync issue

[dan moylan]

daniel barrett writes:
> On November 2, 2022, dan moylan wrote:
>> i have two home computers: aldeberan and alphacent, as well
>> as a remote website moylan.us, aka 50.87.218.82.  some four
>> years ago (almost) dan ritter gave me instructions for
>> setting up passwordless rsync amongst the lot.  it's worked
>> like a charm ever since, except now.  alphacent is a new
>> thinkpad T470 and it seems not to work there.

> A couple of additional things to try:

->  Confirm on alphacent that rsync.key is present in ~/.ssh.

yes, done.

> - Confirm on alphacent that rsync.key is loaded in your ssh-agent
>   (ssh-add -l) so your downsync script can use it.
 
aha!

moylan ~[1026] ssh-add -l
The agent has no identities.

"ssh-add ~/.ssh/rsync.key" did the trick.  rsync now
passwordless as desired.

HOWEVER, i went to aldeberan:

moylan ~[1021] ssh-add -l
The agent has no identities.

and yet rsync works passwordless there.  (sigh) there is so
much i do not understand, but i'm glad that there are others
who do.

thank you so much.

ole dan

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