rsync question?

[Nils Kassube]

gene heskett wrote:
> ping?
> On 10/27/25 23:03, gene heskett wrote:
> > Trying to setup a custom backup script here.
> > I have 2-way ssh logins w/o pw's using rsa keyfiles instead between
> > the machine containing an 11Tb raid6, and all it clients, but rsync
> > insists on running its huge username/pw requestor.  This of course
> > kills any possibility of crontab-ing it.
> > 
> > Is there an optional --option for rsync so it uses the 4096 bit
> > keyfiles instead of the pw for machine to machine copies? The man
> > page for rsync-3.2.7 seems silent.

At least I couldn't find such an option in the man page. But did you 
consider to put the keys to the file "~/.ssh/authorized_keys"? (I think 
that was the gist of the previous reply by Francis Grizzly Smit).


Nils