[K12OSN] rsync help
Dimitri Yioulos
dyioulos at firstbhph.com
Fri Nov 11 13:31:32 UTC 2005
Good morning to all.
I note at least some of you use rsync on a regular basis, and would appreciate
your help.
Some background info.: both A and B run CentOS 3.5. SSH and rsync are
installed, and I created the user rsync, on both machines.
I have a project in which I need to update files in a directory on server B
with the originals on server A. I have a script that accomplishes this using
rsync, and it works very well. However, I'm prompted for a password when
connecting to server B. As I want to cron the running of the script, I don't
want to be prompted for the password.
I've read how-to's on using rsync, and believe that I must create an rsync
server on server B. I guess that entails creating an rsyncd.conf file, then
running rysnc as a daemon. Prior to that, however, it looks like I need to
create an rsa key pair on server A, then get the public key to server B.
I've done this. The how-to's go on to say that I should load the key into
memory with the "ssh-add" command. That doesn't work unless I use the
"ssh-agent $SHELL" first. I've done this, as well. However, when I try to
access server B with the "slogin" command, I'm still prompted for a password.
I really need to set this up so that the script will run unattended. Your
help would be most appreciated.
Thanks.
Dimitri
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