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## gist:8700714

      
        
          
            
              
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                Rsync - via SSH with no password, utilizing SSH ForceCommand in the authorized_keys file to limit the commands that can be run with that SSH key 
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    To make rsync both secure and automated (i.e : non-interactive), you can use SSH as the transport and set up a key pair. This is what will be discussed in this post, along with a few improvements.
Basic rsync + ssh

Let’s first ensure that rsync works correctly over ssh :
spaghetti% rsync -avz -e ssh --delete Documents prodigy:/tmp

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