On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote: > I have heard of private key but how to set it up and/or use with SSH and > rsync is beyond my expertise. How about a little pointer? Google `ssh generate public key` -- lots of tutorials. Nutshell: generate public/private key pair on origin machine, add the public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the target machine, done. Now you can ssh in (or use scp, etc.) without using your password. -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder at gmail.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan