Hi Dan, > Why not rsync directly as root? Then you can use a passwordless, > passphraseless RSA (or similar) keypair.
That’s because these are cloud instances that get maintained by multiple admins. If we require all of them to log in as root, we would have to share the root password – and that would on one hand be a security/maintainability issue (if one person leaves the team, we’ll have to change and redistribute the root password), on the other hand it would violate accountability (log files would only show logins by „root“ and after an issue, there would be no chance to know whom to ask about strange things). Both are the typical reasons for not using root accounts but going for sudo instead … Thanks anyway. Every idea helps! Mark
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