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From: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>
To: Miguel Gonz?lez Casta?os <mgc@tid.es>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rsync and ssh
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:55:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030623165549.GB25076@rdlg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EF72EFF.9405B3C7@tid.es>

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Use "rsync -e ssh" and set up a trust.  Make sure that the system
initiating the connection is very secure otherwise you've opened up a
hole with the user's ID on the remote system.

Ideal situation?

Machine A sends a file to Machine B
Create a new id "rsync-foo" on both machines with 0 privs.  Make the
  home dirs /var/tmp/ and a shell of /dev/null (SHOULD work with rsync).
Establish trust from A to B using the rsync-foo user ID.

rsync -e ssh -avHD -stats /source/files /target/files

Then a cron job on MachineB which validates the data and then
copies/rsync's it to it's final destination.

Robert


Thus spake Miguel Gonz?lez Casta?os (mgc@tid.es):

> dear all,
> 
>  I am considering to use a synchronization tool to synchronize the
> contents of some directories and mirror some directories from one server
> to another intranet server behind a dial-up connection.
> 
>  As you guys can imagine the speed of the connection is an issue and I
> am thinking of a system to send securely the data using some
> compression.
> 
>  the customer suggested rsync, I have looked through a little bit around
> the rsync website and see that there is ssh support for that tool. Which
> it would be setup for such system? Should i store the password of the
> user used for sshing the server in plain text in a file?
> 
>  Many thanks in advance
> 
>  Miguel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-23 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-23 16:46 rsync and ssh Miguel González Castaños
2003-06-23 16:55 ` Robert L. Harris [this message]
2003-06-23 21:10   ` Stephen Samuel

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