[K12OSN] rsync help

Patrick Mohr patmo98 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 13 05:54:04 UTC 2005


Doug Simpson wrote:

> You can just ut the username and password on the line, like this. . .
>
> rsync -e ssh -avz -o username=<username>,password=<password>password 
> user at servera:/path/to/files/ user at serverb:/path/to/destination
>
> <usernmame> and <password> would be valid for the account with the 
> apropropriate rights.
>
> Doug
>
If you do that, anyone who runs "ps ax" while it is being run will see 
your password.  You probably know that, but better safe than sorry.
-Patrick.




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