[Techtalk] rsync with ssh using cron

[Lorne Gutz]

The problem as you discrib it may be solved by checking
the permissions on the 'id_dsa' file.  just change all the
files in this directory to 600 and your problem could go 
away.

cheers
Lorne




On Wednesday 19 June 2002 00:20, Michelle Murrain wrote:
> I'm trying to get rsync to work with cron. The one tip I found, upon
> googling, at: http://www.scrounge.org/linux/rsync.html
>
> looks good, but doesn't work. (Basically, this method is to create a new
> key, and place it in a file in the ~/.ssh directory of both machines, to
> get a ssh without password prompt.) Didn't work.I'm not clear why it
> didn't work - but I still got a password prompt.
>
> Suggestions?