I solved the problem. First of all one machine was running freessh, the
other openssh and there were some hoops to jump through to get them to
play nice together. I just setup openssh on both and it made life much
simpler. To rid myself of the password prompt, I just didn't use a pass
phrase and used DSA encryption. Also I wanted to use ssh2 for obvious
security reasons and openssh only uses DSA for ssh2. I haven't tried it
in a cron job yet, but I'm not expecting anything different.
Kelly
Gary Hennigan wrote:
"Kelly Corbin,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm trying to setup a cron job to sync two servers using ssh and rsync. The
problem is I'm promted for a password; which won't work when I stick it in
cron. Here's the syntax of my command line:
rsync -vnaz --rsh=ssh --delete somehost.com:/var/www/ /var/www/
Any ideas? Thanks!
Why were you thinking you wouldn't be prompted for a password? In
order to do passwordless ssh you need to do the following:
1) On your local system run ssh-keygen and use a good passphrase when
prompted
2) Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub from the local system to
~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote system.
3) Make sure your ssh daemon on the remote system has, at least, the
following in it's configuration file:
RSAAuthentication yes
That should get you going for passwordless ssh between the two.
Gary
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