John R Pierce wrote: > Todd Cary wrote: >> About a year and a half ago, someone answered a request on how to set >> up rsync so that the encryption was automatically setup (wish I knew >> more about the technical aspects). It has been in use for the time >> since then and it has been great. Now I have to replace the >> destination computer and setting up, what I call the encryption part, >> is the part I have forgotten how to do. This is the command line: >> >> /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/ >> >> Is there anyone who can translate what I am trying to do? >> >> Todd >> > > its using a ssh server, you just need to setup SSH public keys. > > look up ssh-keygen. for example (random howto found by google), > http://kimmo.suominen.com/docs/ssh/ ... note, that you need to use a > blank 'passphrase' if you want automatic rsync sessions to run w/o > user intervention. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > John - Thank you! Yes...that was the part that rather confusing. The step-by-step instructions took the mystery out of the process. Todd