[CentOS] unison versus rsync

[Joseph L. Casale]

>rsync already defaults to ssh as transport but with
>$ rsync -e 'ssh -i keyfile'
>you can use rsync with a ssh key.

Yes, that was what I had been doing, but I wanted to avoid the
use of ssh completely, the connection is secured over a vpn, silly
to incur the overhead of encryption, twice.

An rsync daemon was used and the passwords automated with a password
file and this has been working well for a few days...