The man page for rsync(1) states:
--password-file
This option allows you to provide a password in a
file for accessing a remote rsync server. Note that
this option is only useful when accessing an rsync
server using the built in trans- port, not when using a
remote shell as the transport. The file must not be
world readable. It should contain just the password as
a single line.
I found that a newline is required after the line containing the
password, at least in rsync 2.6.2. Without the newline character, I
would see this error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# rsync -av --password-file=/root/.rsync/secrets-proxy \
[EMAIL PROTECTED]::mailarchive/ /sql/archive/mail
@ERROR: auth failed on module mailarchive
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (95 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342)
Upon adding a newline, the problem went away.
Perhaps the documentation could be clarified: "...as a single line
followed by a newline." Or something to that effect.
What, you mean I'm not supposed to take it literally? :-)
--Jon Johnson
Sutinen Consulting, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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