From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 6 1:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrdp.com (harp.dublin.wrdp.net [212.147.130.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A2B37B408 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:49:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jraftery@wrdp.com) Received: from jraftery (jraftery.dublin.wrdp.net [172.16.4.52]) by mail.wrdp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C8992D783 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:49:14 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <002701c0ee65$9075a2f0$340410ac@jraftery> From: "James Raftery" To: References: <20010605235227.A500@superhero.org> Subject: Re: rsync for mirroring Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:49:14 +0100 Organization: Worldport Communications Inc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erich Zigler" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 5:52 AM Subject: rsync for mirroring > The plan is to have rsync keep the directories in sync via ssh. For security > reasons I have created two plain joe users whose only exceptional capability > is the ability to login to the other machine without being prompted for a > password using ssh. > > Now my issue is that using rsync -avz -e "ssh -l /path/to/identify" /path > user@domain:/path The flag to specify an alternative identity file is -i, not -l. Use -l to specify an alternative remote username. Regards, james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message