Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Andy Firman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030917 10:18]: > > I have never used ssh-add but I am doing the same thing you are > > and I used this very nice how-to that you may find useful: > > > > http://killyridols.net/rsyncssh.shtml > > Careful with that one. I just took a glance at it, and it recommends > using an unencrypted private key without a forced command on the remote > host's authorized_keys. This isn't _all_ bad, but I'd say it could be > better, by adding some options in the remote host's authorized_keys to > prevent this key from being used for anything but rsync, and only from a > specified host. I think I wrote up something about this on this list a > while back; try http://google.com/search?q=vineet+rsync+authorized_keys > . If you can't find anything, let me know and I'll write it again.
If ssh-agent is running, and you have the proper keys in the proper
places, you simply need to set the SSH_AGENT_PID and SSH_AUTH_SOCK
environment variables. Make sure to use the [EMAIL PROTECTED]: syntax
because the cron job may be running as root.
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to
be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge
gives. A popular government without popular information or the means
of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or
perhaps both."
- James Madison
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