Hey everybody, I've got a script that runs rsync to sync up files on my development computer and a backup computer I've got on the same network... It's a one-liner (I haven't really learned how to harness the power of the scripts yet ), that looks like this:

rsync -e ssh -avz /SERVER kassemi@192.168.0.2: /BACKUP

I've set up the keys so that this will run when I'm logged in on my development computer as kassemi. crond is running as a different user though, so this command doesn't work (prompt for password).. I don't want the crond user to have access to the backup machine... I was doing some reading, and I ran across this:

crontab filename -e kassemi

If I do this to the script, will I end up messing up cron access to the other scripts I have? Will it work? How can cron run the file as kassemi without prompting me for a password every time?

Thanks,

James.

Here is a tutorial on setting up ssh. Basically, if you don't want to be prompted for a password , then you just press enter for the passphrase. That's not the most secure thing but works for cron jobs.

Setting up another cron job in crontab shouldn't bother existing cron jobs.

Thanks homey. Actually though, I already have that part set up... But I want to be able to run a cron job as a different user... I've got the ssh automatically set up for user: kassemi, and want to run the cron job as that user... any ideas?

Thanks,
James.

Edit the crontab for that user, should work