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Name: legolas
Date: December 2, 2008 at 02:42:50 Pacific
OS: Ubuntu 8.04
CPU/Ram: 2 GHz/1 GB
Product: HP
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I'm trying to automate backups from my spare PC to my main PC. I've installed the ssh public key on the spare and from my main I can login using ssh without the need for specifying pw.
But trying a $ sudo rsync -e ssh ...
(from same non-root user to same non-root user) gives the prompt:
root@spare's password:
which is tricky as there is no root account on the spare PC! If I try without sudo, it'll not ask for root pw but then I'll get "Permission denied". I'm trying to do this without the need for a root account. Shouldn't that be possible?



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