On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 12:23 PM Dr. Mark Asbach via rsync < rsync@lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Hi there, hi past me, > > > My (non-working) attempt: > > […] > > So it seems the "-l" is dropped into the void letting ssh assume USER > was the target host? I don’t actually get what I can do. > > Turns out, I have to write down the description of my issue and then send > the email before I magically understand the solution ;-) > > Here’s a working example that does not need a wrapper script: > > PASSWORD=<SUDOPASS> rsync -vv --delete-after --delay-updates '/bin/sh -c > "{ echo $PASSWORD; cat - ; } | ssh -i ~/.ssh/id.key $0 $* &"' > --rsync-path='sudo -S rsync‘ ./SRCDIR USER@HOST:DSTDIR > > The trick was actually to add "$0" because $* will drop the first argument > from the list as this typically is the name of the script itself (duh!). > > Hope this is of help to anyone, > Cool, glad you found a solution you're happy with. Bear in mind, putting a password in an environment variable can be seen by other users on the same system with "ps auxwwe".
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