[SOLVED] Password protected key authorization with rsync

AdultFoundry · 03-26-2016, 03:33 PM

I have Cygwin on Windows 7 and I would like to download files from a remote Linux server, and this would be with a key pair authorization, and one of the keys is password protected.

Is this possibe? How would I do that?

Not too much info about it on the Internet, it seems like...

Thanks!

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This is already solved. It will just ask me for the password, and it will work...

onebuck · 03-27-2016, 08:17 AM

Post to remove from zero reply. Marked as [SOLVED] by OP statement..

sundialsvcs · 03-28-2016, 08:53 AM

Generally speaking, if you need "single sign-on" (your credentials work on many [remote] systems), the best way to achieve that is by using a central-management technology like Kerberos or LDAP (a.k.a. MS OpenDirectory). Don't try to use individual password-files. While such things "can be made to work, after a fashion," they are pragmatically un-manageable.