From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 11 7:28:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from vyrus.net (vyrus.net [207.246.130.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACCE37BAF6 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phill@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (phill@localhost) by vyrus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA12923; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phill@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: vyrus.net: phill owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 07:27:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Phillip Salzman X-Sender: phill@vyrus.net To: Michael O Shea Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anonymous rsync or RSA Auth with empty passwd? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Instead of keeping the password in clear text, what about using SSH authentication keys and host rules? I've set it up like that in the past, and had zero problems with it. --- Phillip Salzman phill@freebsd.org On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Michael O Shea wrote: > > > > >> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message