Colin S. Miller wrote:
It looks like you have set up a ssh keypair (ssh-keygen).
If you set the key's password to the empty string,
you won't be prompted for a password.
Yes. That is correct; that is what I have done. I think the empty passphrase is
too much of a risk.
If this is too much for a security risk, you can set up a
'tar' user on the remote machine, and use sudo to run tar.
You then set up a passwordless keypair for the 'tar' user.
Hmmm. I'll try doing that. Is there more documentation on this somewhere? I
want to be able to back up all my file systems. A normal user won't have all
the permissions on them. Plus, how could I prevent this account from being
exploited due to its passwordless nature?
Thanks,
Saurabh
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