I know and I did that, however it did not work. The files must be in the correct place because it stopped asking for the

user name. There is something secret about passing the password in the ssh shell. What I need is one of those programs

like you can get to automatically enter the password when you log outlook into an exchange server. I am sure it is

something obvious, but I have not found it yet.

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ed Leafe" <ed@leafe.com>

To: "ProFox Email List" <profox@leafe.com>

Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 10:56 AM

Subject: Re: [NF] Webfaction web hosting notes

On Jun 13, 2010, at 11:44 AM, <kamcginnis@gmail.com> <kamcginnis@gmail.com> wrote:

> a). They recommended that we use rsync for updating their Linux servers from our Windows development workstations.

This

> works fine but we are not able to do this without manually typing in the password. If you Google this problem you will

> get a million hits (or more) so it is obviously a very common problem. None of the solutions work for us and most

other

> people. This means we cannot automate the updating.

You need to set up public/private keys on the machines. If they are present, rsync will use them to authenticate and

will not need a password. Google for "ssh-keygen" and I'm sure you'll find tons of information about how to do this.

-- Ed Leafe

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