[NBLUG/talk] Duplicating a server

Chris Palmer chris at eff.org
Mon Nov 21 10:44:48 PST 2005


E Frank Ball writes:

> export RSYNC_PASSWORD=

rsync(1) says: "WARNING: On some systems environment variables are
visible to all users. On those systems using --password-file is
recommended."

Is Linux such a system? I don't know. It seems to me best to use the
known-safest configuration in all cases. (Check those file and directory
permissions!)


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