From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T22:11:41+09:00
Subject: Re: rsync functionality in Ruby?


On 2-Sep-07, at 3:44 AM, Dick Davies wrote:

> On 01/09/07, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:
>
>> Is this rsync+ssh? If so, what did you handle passwords when making
>> the connection (I wound up going though disgusting conniptions using
>> expect)? I know that you can avoid login by setting up .ssh/
>> known_hosts but that is frowned upon in some circles.
>
> If you're dicking around with expect you have the
> password  in plain text somewhere along the line, so you'd be lucky to
> avoid frowns even then :)

I know, funny isn't it :-)

>
> ;Use RSA authentication - a blank passphrase on the key (for  
> cronjobs), or
> use ssh-agent (for everything else - unit testing etc).

I think I'm going to push a bit on the RSA authentication, see where  
I get.

Cheers,
Bob

>
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