RE: cron'ing rsync over ssh

Hya,

Generate your keys for root from the box you want run rsync from (client).
Copy your public key to the machine you want login (servers), to the /root/.ssh directory.
I recommend creating DSA keys and setting your host keys to only use DSA as well.

HTH Thanks...

Paul.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Burkhardt [mailto:jesse@skybuilders.com] Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2003 2:32 AM
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Subject: cron'ing rsync over ssh

My setup is: I run rsync daemonized on various server machines in my LAN - i.e., the source machines certain partitions of which I want to backup. I would like the client, the destination archiving machine, to run hourly crons over ssh, but so far the only thing I have been able to

do is rsync across (as root so that I am not denied anything) only after interactively supplying my root password to the ssh daemon. How do I get around interactive ssh interactive password requirement so that I can cron all these rsync client requests regularly?

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I know passwordless implementation involve ssh-keygen and ssh-agent, but

I haven't figured out what the proper usages are yet.

Thanks

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Jesse Burkhardt
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