At 02:43 PM 7/29/2008, you wrote: >On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >>I want to secure some remote rsyncs over ssh by using the command= option >>in .authorized_keys. >>As I understand I can use only the full command there, as it is not a list >>of "allowed commands" but the command that will be executed when logging >>in with this key. >>Now, I'm running several rsync commands on individual directories in the >>root, not just one command. I do that to pull different exclude lists in. >>I want to exclude nothing in some directories and a few different things >>in other directories. rsyncing per /rooted directory seems to be the >>cleanest and easiest way. All other combinations of complicated >>exclude/include lists may have unexpected results. >>I thought about putting the remote command in a shell script. However, I >>think this won't work as each rsync on the remote side will be executed >>with the first rsync command in the script on the local side. >>Is there a solution (besides using several keys or so)? >> >>Kai >> >>-- >>Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany >>Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > >By 'secure some remote rsyncs' do you mean only >allow rsync but not interactive login? If so >perhaps this will meet your needs: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html Hello Kai, I wanted to reply with a solution, but I did not quite understand the problem.. It certainly appears that you have the rsync and ssh skills/competency to do what you want. Thanks, Glenn Parsons