On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:15:45 -0500, Brian J. Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:59 -0500, Neil Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:43:47AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > >IMHO, the right way to do this is to use the "forced command" option in > > >the authorized_keys file. See the manpage for sshd under the > > >"AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT" section and create a key on the backup > > >server that is forced to run only one command and then use the private > > >portion of that key without a passphrase on your client. > > > > That is very interesting. Does that mean I could have a key pair > > without a passphrase? > > Sure.
[...] > > Do you have an example of how a remote rsync or other > > type of backup would use this feature? > > I'm afraid I don't. If this is what you want to do, look at Bill > Stearns' rsync-backup-server/rsync-backup-client tool(s). I am using this setup. See http://coffeebreaks.dyndns.org/~jerome/wordpress/?p=204 and http://www.jdmz.net/ssh/ for the original link. J _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
