On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:58:10 -0500 (CDT), mjn <mjn at umn.edu> wrote:

> or is rsync the problem?
>
> I've got an account on a RH box running Ensim WEBppliance for linux. I am
> trying to use rsync to connect to the box and backup a directory to my
> local machine. The problem is that the Ensim software uses virtual 
> servers
> and instead of a plain old username, you've got to login with
> 'username at domain.org'
>
> So, likesay, an ssh connection must by executed like this:
>
> 'ssh -l username at domain.org domain.org'
>
> To be successful. The issue seems to be that rsync has no --user flag in
> it.
>
> I have tried a few variations of the command -and read the documentation
> over and over-and connecting like this:
>
> 'rsync -vr user at domain.org@domain.org:/path/to/remote /path/to/local'


Tell rsync to use a different shell with -e - that shell can be ssh:

rsync -azve ssh your.server.com:/home/your/code .

the a is archive mode, Z is compress, v is verbose and the e tells it to 
use a shell other than rsh in this case ssh!




>
> Always yields something like:
>
> "domain.org at domain.org's password: "
>
> Anyone have any ideas? I am thinking that I need to push from the server
> rather than pull from my workstation but then I would need access to the
> rsync executable on the server, which I don't have...
>
> Any suggestions would be much appretiated. thanks!
>
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