From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 11 6:45:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from hitline.ch (mail.hitline.ch [195.129.74.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DA537B8A7 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 06:45:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from micheal@com4u.ch) Received: from [10.10.10.150] (HELO [10.10.10.150]) by hitline.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3b9) with ESMTP id 1881044 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:46:20 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: micheal%com4u.ch@mail.com4u.ch Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:45:05 +0200 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Michael O Shea Subject: Re: anonymous rsync or RSA Auth with empty passwd? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >> Why anonymous ? Use Rsyncs security settings.Define your Modules and >> who can sync them. >> You can run RSYNC over SSH if you wish. > > >Because I want to run this via cron every night I was looking for a >solution that didn't need a password to be entered. I can use the host >allows and deny in the rsyncd.conf and also turn off listing of the >modules and give the modules funky names for an extra "layer" of security. >Albeit a weak/corny one. Sound like a viable solution? > Do not run rsync direct from cron. Instead get cron to run a script say myrsync.csh , which could be #! /bin/csh cd /usr/bin setenv RSYNC_PASSWORD blabla rsync -avW --stats --delete and so on....... -- Micheal O Shea Email:micheal@com4u.ch com4u.ch http://www.com4u.ch Breitistrasse 7B PGP key available upon request. CH-5506 Maegenwil Tel: +41 62 896 46 26 Switzerland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message