rsync server [was: rsync w/o giving a password]

haimat · Last edited by haimat on Sun Sep 29, 2002 11:20 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi there,

I want to backup some files via rsync (over ssh) from one machine to another one. And because I want to do that in a cron job, I want to use the --password-file=... option.

But it seems that rsync does not use this option and still asks for a password (I get the same "error" if I try it with the RSYNC_PASSWORD variable).

Does anyone has an idea why this could be? Maybe cause of ssh?
Greetings, Matthias

rac · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 9:25 pm Post subject:

Have you seen How to write a backup script that will auto insert password??
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haimat · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 11:23 pm Post subject:

Hello and thx for your answer. But I now want to try it with an rsync-server. I started the daemon with "rsync --daemon" as root with a minimal config under /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf (only a module name, a path, and a comment).

But when I then try to rsync to this server from my client, I only get an error like this:

haimat · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 3:26 pm Post subject:

I searched a bit in the internet and the newsgroups. It seems that several people have a similar problem like me, but I found no solution.

Does really nobody knows a solution? Since Gentoos heart is portage which uses rsync there have to be many rsync gurus here...

Greetings, Matthias