Thanks David for investigating and confirming!
I hope I'll find some time to look into rsync sources what is failing.
Best regards,
Fabrice
2018-02-05 20:42 GMT+01:00 David Grayson <davidegray...@gmail.com>:
> Hello, Fabrice.
>
> I looked into this a little bit, trying different commands, but could
> not get anything to work. When I use 'plink' instead of 'plink-ssh',
> at least the error message changes (and it seems better):
>
> $ rsync --debug=all --msgs2stderr --rsh 'plink' -av testdir
> david@testserver:
> opening connection using: plink -l david testserver rsync --server
> -vlogDtpre.iLsfxC --debug=ALL . . (10 args)
> Unable to read from standard input: The parameter is incorrect.
> rsync: safe_read failed to read 4 bytes [sender]: Connection reset by peer
> (104)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> io.c(276) [sender=3.1.2]
> [sender] _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=276): about to call
> exit(12)
>
> That second error message looks better because it seems like rsync is
> actually exchanging data with plink. To debug this further, you might
> want to build a debug version of rsync that logs all messages sent and
> received.
>
> --David
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Fabrice Popineau
> <fabrice.popin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Quick question : is there a way to make rsync use pageant to unlock keys?
> > Something seems flawed with rsync.
> >
> > I have pageant running and keys loaded.
> >
> > I can :
> >
> > $ plink-ssh -l semantic foundry2.supelec.fr ls -al
> > total 44
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 semantic semantic 4096 Sep 12 2016 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 24 2015 ..
> > -rw------- 1 semantic semantic 2944 Jan 15 23:58 .bash_history
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 semantic semantic 220 Aug 24 2015 .bash_logout
> > ...
> > $
> >
> > plink-ssh is using pageant as expected without requesting to type a
> password
> > to unlock keys.
> >
> > But I can't use plink-ssh in rsync:
> >
> > $ rsync --debug=ALL -a -e 'plink-ssh -agent -batch' /c/Home/Org/
> > seman...@host.mydomain.fr:/home/semantic/popineau/
> > opening connection using: plink-ssh -agent -batch -l semantic
> > host.mydomain.fr rsync --server -logDtpre.iLsfxC --debug=ALL .
> > /home/semantic/popineau/ (12 args)
> > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226)
> > [sender=3.1.2]
> > [sender] _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=226): about to call
> exit(12)
> >
> >
> > I have not been able to circumvent this problem. I tried many ways,
> > including using cygnative, but with no result.
> >
> > I suspect a problem in rsync or its MSYS2 port but I may have overlooked
> > something.
> > Anybody can comment on this issue?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Fabrice
> >
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