[K12OSN] Way OT: scripting help

[Dan Young]

Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> Thanks, Dan.  OK, I had considered rsync.  If I've set up my system to do 
> automatic authentication for an scp session, does that carry over to rsync 
> (or is the attending ssh covered)?  D you understand my question (I just 
> barely do  :-)  )?

scp and ssh (the shell rsync will use given the "-e ssh") are going to
use the same keys as long as they're running as the same user. If you can:

scp foo user at dest:foo

you should be able to:

rsync -e ssh foo user at dest:foo

Should just work.

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