Jay,
Why don't you configure ssh to not require a password with
an public key or one of the other methods. I can't imagine that
is any less in-secure than embedding the password into some script.
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:02:45PM +0000, Jay Moore wrote:
> How do I call rsync with -e ssh in a shell script run from cron. SSH
> requires a password. How do I pass the password to it from the script?
