trouble with sshpass unmaintained

[Jim McNamara]

Hi-

It is really not worth the trouble for ya'll to fix it because although VPN provides some protection your time is valuable and a perfect solution is not always readily attainable.

thanks



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On Sunday, August 4th, 2024 at 12:34 AM, Jim McNamara via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> This commmand doesnt seem to work:
> 
> 
> sshpass -p 'your_password' rsync -avvv -e 'ssh -4 -vvv -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -p 2222' /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/myuser1/shared/ myuser1@127.0.0.1:/home/myuser1/
> 
> The issue is that sshpass wont pass passwd to rsync to ssh in this direction ->
> 
> 
> I tried redirection and piping, but it complained of a pseudo terminal. When i uses ssh by itself it works, but when i chain sshpass to this other stuff like rsync it bombs out. This is unfortunate because grsync doesnt seem to have everything i need i am using it in xwindow in cygwin.
> 
> Please do you have a suggestion besides fooliing with except package.
> 
> thanks,
> jim
> 
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