Hey cool, I didn't realize you could do something like that.  :)

On 20040722.1243, Cory Petkovsek said ...

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:22:05PM -0700, larry price wrote:
> > if you don't want to bother with ssh-agent you can use a plaintext
> > key-file but you should make
> > sure that that key is not going to be able to do anything besides rsync files.
> 
> Meaning among other things, that in your /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys file
> you prepent something like:
> from=ip.of.rsync.server, cmd=/usr/local/bin/rsync.script ssh-dsa R5cEfd..
> 
> This means using the passphrase-less key, one can only connect to this host
> from the first machine and they can only run one command perhaps with arguments
> if they need to change, preferably not.  If so, you need to take care the the
> arguments aren't something like: "-v; echo guest::0:0::/:/bin/sh>>/etc/passwd"
> 
> Cory
> 
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