On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:02 PM, dan moylan <[email protected]> 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. REAL ANSWER*** 2. -e takes a single argument. I believe you have to quote the whole thing i.e. rsync -e "ssh -i ...." .... 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 Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
