On Sunday 29 May 2005 04:42 pm, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 29 May 2005 16:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I never use rsync myself, but why not just use --rsh="ssh 'su -'" > > instead of --rsh="ssh"? > > It'd have to be "ssh 'sudo su -'", but that doesn't work:
'sudo su -' is definately wrong. Maybe simply 'sudo' or 'sudo /bin/bash' but not 'sudo su -'. > # rsync --verbose --checksum --archive --partial --progress --rsh="ssh > 'sudo su -'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/ ./var/ > ssh: 'sudo: Name or service not known Er, this is the kicker. It means that rsync is invoking ssh like: ssh 'sudo su -' [EMAIL PROTECTED] whereas ssh needs it to look like: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'sudo su -' There's no way to force ssh to take the command first that I can find. I see a couple of solutions. The first is to simply allow root to login via ssh on the remote machine and use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] The second is to write a small bash script reorders the arguments to ssh so that --rsh="<script name> 'sudo /bin/bash'" (or a variant) will work. I'm sure there are other solutions, too. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
