The environment variable RSYNC_PASSORD and commandline parameter --password-file= are for authenticating against an rsync server. If you're going through ssh, you don't have an rsync question. If you can't "ssh remotehost date" without a password, rsync isn't going to fake up a tty and play expect with ssh for you. Make a passphraseless ssh key, and keep it out of the hands of your enemies. You can even set the authorized_keys file to permit only rsync to be run over that session.
Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Services desk:3032734776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry to disturb u again, but now i have one more very small problem. we need not to supply the password on command line everytime, when we will use rsync for transferring files from one m/c to another,i want to fix login name as well as passord for a particular m/c. I try out the option of seting the environment variable RSYNC_PASSORD and --password-file=FILE . but both of them is not solve my purpose. or may be i m not using them in proper way so kindly gave me ur suggestions regarding the login name and password. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html