Rsync in background

[James]

How to run rsync in background when it prompts to enter passwd,
without using expect or password-less ssh?

TIA
James

[Lew Pitcher]

James wrote:

> How to run rsync in background when it prompts to enter passwd,
> without using expect or password-less ssh?

Never tried this myself, but rsync(1) (the rsync man page) says, regarding
the RSYNC_PASSWORD environment variable,

"Setting RSYNC_PASSWORD to the required password allows you to run
authenticated rsync connections to an rsync daemon without user
intervention. Note that this does not supply a password to a remote
shell transport such as ssh; to learn how to do that, consult the remote
shell's documentation."

HTH
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Lew Pitcher
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