integrating rsync with Rev

[Josh Mellicker]

If you're setting up ssh key pairs, you won't need to use "expect"  
because no password is needed.

I started following this article:

http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2008/05/07/securing-automated-rsync-over-ssh/

but got stuck at "We can use the ssh-copy-id utility for this purpose"  
since I have no such utility. I was going to manually add the key pair  
to "~/.ssh/authorized_keys " on the remote host, but I'm not sure what  
"~" signifies on a Linux box. (on OS X it's the user directory)

But Sarah's solution seems to work great.

One caveat, with rsync, I have not figured out how to provide a  
progress slider!


On May 20, 2008, at 1:13 AM, David Bovill wrote:

> I've done this several times on linux / OSX - I'd have to look it up  
> in the
> man pages as once you've done it one you just use it. I've not used  
> "expect"
> before... I'll take a look at the way you've used it....
>
> 2008/5/20 Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, David Bovill <david at openpartnership.net 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>> Sarah - thanks for this work! Just one thing... for general use it  
>>> would
>> be
>>> really great to use these techniques to interactively generate the  
>>> ssh
>> key
>>> pairs from within Rev and then ftp or scp them to the server. This
>>> convenience option would make it easy for users to set up secure
>>> connections, and the truely paranoid could always do the ssh key  
>>> pair
>>> generation themselves on the command line.
>>>
>>> I think this would get a lot more acceptance due to security fears  
>>> - also
>> it
>>> has general application to a whole bunch of shell commands that  
>>> can use
>> ssh
>>> key pairs for authentication - svn for one.
>>
>>
>> If you can send me the Terminal commands needed to do this, I would  
>> be
>> happy to incorporate them into a stack and then make rync work that
>> way.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sarah
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