[wplug] weird rsync error

Shawn Zier shawnzier at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 17:44:40 EST 2008


Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Alexandros Papadopoulos
>>  <apapadop at alumni.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >  I don't know why this is so, but I've always found that temporarily
>>  >  storing the password in an environment variable works much better.
>>  >
>>  >  $ export RSYNC_PASSWORD=blah
>>  >  $ rsync ....
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I tried that but rsync still prompts me for the password. And then the
>>  same error occurs, but this time it took nearly 3 minutes:
>>
>>  ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Desktop$ export RSYNC_PASSWORD=foo
>>
>>
>>  ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Desktop$ time rsync -avP --progress doxygen.diff
>>  chaos at unix.club.cc.cmu.edu:/afs/club.cc.cmu.edu/usr/chaos/tmp
>>  chaos at unix.club.cc.cmu.edu's password:
>>  rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
>>  rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(434)
>>
>>  real    2m53.439s
>>  user    0m0.051s
>>  sys     0m0.209s
>>
>>  Here is the version I have, maybe RSYNC_PASSWORD isn't known to it?
>>     
>
> Sorry I was off-base here. RSYNC_PASSWORD is for rsync authentication,
> you're trying to do (hopefully) SSH-based authentication.
>
> Try this:
> $ rsync -avP -e "ssh -v" doxygen.diff
> chaos at unix.club.cc.cmu.edu:/afs/club.cc.cmu.edu/usr/chaos/tmp
>
> -A
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>   
Alexandros,

Could you just do password-less ssh with rsa or dsa keys?

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152

Shawn


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