Yes - I see what you're saying. I think when I realised you can rsync through ssh with out setting/using up the rsync server, I made a few assumptions - perhaps this man page would bear a re-reading. thanks for filling me in Glenn On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 23:13, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:59:53PM +1000, glenn wrote: > > I'm happy to be corected here, but if you use rsync --server --daemon, > > doesn't that exclude ssh from the equation? > > No, I don't think so. > > I have not tried it yet, but according to the rsyncd.conf(5) man page that's > the command used in single-use key when running rsync *server* over > ssh. So, the server is not normally running until a ssh connection is > made. > > Then, according to rsync(1) to connect from the client you do something > like: > > rsync -av --rsh="ssh -l ssh-user" [EMAIL PROTECTED]::module[/path] local-path > > where "ssh-user" is the remote unix user name. Might even want to use > -i to specify what private key to use (the one that's defined for the > single use on the remote machine). Using .ssh/config can make that > easier, I suppose. > > > In order to use ssh, do you not need > > rsync -e ssh ....... from the instigating end, which then talks to the > > ssh deamon, not the rsync deamon? > > Yes, you need -e (--rsh) to say what remote shell to use. Then you also > use the double :: to indicate you are using a remote rsync server. > > Then when the ssh connection is made on the remote end, the public key > used for authentication also says to run the program rsync in server > mode (instead of say a shell). > > And to answer my question about how to set the command for the single-use > key in SSH Corp's version: > > In the .ssh2/authorization file you do, for example: > > Key open.pub > Key rsync.pub > Options allow-from="trusted.hank.org", command="rsync --server --daemon ." > > So if you connect with the private key for open.pub you get normal ssh > access, but if you use the private key for rsync.pub then you can only > run rsync. > > The man page on the Sun box for ssh2 doesn't describe those Options, but > they can be found at: > > http://www.ssh.com/documents/32/ssh2_40.html > > ** Note: this is only from looking at the manual pages -- I've tried > using a simple command="ls" and it works as expected, but I have not > setup the rsync server yet (have to first install rsync). > So the info above might be incorrect.
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