Wayne Davison wrote:
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:02:15PM -0800, jack alex wrote:
So, why it is not picking password from password file and any other
idea to pass ssh password to rsync without prompting it.
This is because the option only affects rsync's use of an rsync daemon.
Rsync has no options that affect ssh's password prompting. You should
get ssh working as needed without rsync being involved (perhaps running
a simple command such as "uptime") and then use that technique with
rsync. However, if you've ruled out ssh keys, your only other choice
may be some kind of host-based authentication. See the ssh docs for
details.
..wayne..
Use keychain to manage an ssh-agent with a key store.
You only have to put in the password once per session
that way. Or leave the key store without a password
if you dare...
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/index.xml
It sets environment variables to connect with a
named pipe for ssh-agent. With authentication
chaining, you can run remote commands that pass
authentication back to your login computer.
Just put the public part of your key into
~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on all of the machines
you want to use.
Jim
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