Setting Up Google 2F Authentication for Automated (Crontab) rsync
Dear All,
I have Google Two Factor (2F) Authentication enabled for sshd on most of my Linux servers. This works well and I highly recommend it.
My question is:
Has anyone set this up for rsync which runs in a crontab?
For example, supposed we have this simple crontab script:
This works fine, of course, when syncing some backup files across the net without 2FA; but I want to do the same thing using Google Authenticator for 2FA.
OK I have been working on this simple action for a while and I cannot get it to work.
First off im new to the linux command line world. I feel like I am missing something simple.
What I am trying to achieve is that I want this command:
tcpdump -s2000 -w'flowroute-%H%M.pcap' -G900 -W36 &to... (13 Replies)
Hi All,
I have created crontab using following steps-
1) crontab -e
(edited the file with) 0 10 * * 1-5 /home/user01/exercise/cron.sh
2) then saved this file with :wq
3) cron.sh contains the code-
#!/bin/bash
DAY=`date +%a`
mkdir abc_${DAY}
4) done the execut permision... (3 Replies)
I need to "sync" a directory from a prod server to a test server. Rsync is working but it prompts for a password and I'd like to automate the process. The directory on the prod/source server is owned by root, and some subdirectories are only readable by root. On the test/destination servers, I can... (1 Reply)
hi All,
i have implemented Rsync in my source and destination server. while running through command prompt it is working fine:
ksh rsync_bravo_db.ksh usa0300uz1252.apps.mc.xerox.com /uv1402/u207/home/bravodba/bin/rsync-3.0.9/config/mrsx_rsync.cfg
but later on i created a another ksh and... (4 Replies)
Hi Team,
Please help me to set one script in crontab.
I have one script and inside script, its creating one log file for saving ouptut of script. i have to out that script in crontab. When i put the script in cronatab, it executed and log file created but no data in log.
like this i put in... (3 Replies)
Hey guys!
So I decided to set up some basic user authentication on my apache2 server, and I am running into some problems. I followed the documentation provided by apache on their website, but I cant create the password file for some reason. I did a little trouble shooting myself, and found... (40 Replies)
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me how to schedule the dbshell.sh script to run on sunday.
I have scheduled as 1 19 7 * * /home/svr/dbshell.sh. kindly confirm confirm whether coded "7" or it should set to '0'.
unix:$ crontab -l
0 19 6 * * /home/svr/dbemail.sh
1 19 7 * * /home/svr/dbshell.sh (2 Replies)
Dear all,
I noticed in syslog that i receive authentication failure from cron:
Mar 11 23:19:01 s1 CRON28789]: Authentication failure
Mar 11 23:19:01 s1 cron: Authentication failure
Mar 11 23:19:01 s1 cron: Authentication failure
Mar 11 23:19:01 s1 CRON: Authentication failure
Mar 11... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mydove
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
parallel-rsync
PARALLEL-RSYNC(1)PARALLEL-RSYNC(1)NAME
parallel-rsync - deploy files to listed hosts
SYNOPSIS
parallel-rsync [OPTIONS] -h hosts.txt local remote
DESCRIPTION
pssh provides a number of commands for executing against a group of computers, using SSH. It's most useful for operating on clusters of
homogenously-configured hosts.
parallel-rsync deploy files files to all hosts you listed.
OPTIONS -r --recursive
recusively copy directories (OPTIONAL)
-a ----archive
use rsync -a (archive mode) (OPTIONAL)
-z --compress
use rsync compression (OPTIONAL)
-h --hosts
hosts file (each line "host[:port] [user]")
-l --user
username (OPTIONAL)
-p --par
max number of parallel threads (OPTIONAL)
-o --outdir
output directory for stdout files (OPTIONAL)
-e --errdir
output directory for stderr files (OPTIONAL)
-t --timeout
timeout (secs) (-1 = no timeout) per host (OPTIONAL)
-O --options
SSH options (OPTIONAL)
-v --verbose
turn on warning and diagnostic messages (OPTIONAL)
EXAMPLE
# parallel-rsync -r -h hosts.txt -l irb2 foo /home/irb2/foo
ENVIRONMENT
All four programs take similar sets of options. All of these options can be set using the following environment variables:
o PSSH_HOSTS
o PSSH_USER
o PSSH_PAR
o PSSH_OUTDIR
o PSSH_VERBOSE
o PSSH_OPTIONS
SEE ALSO parallel-ssh(1), parallel-scp(1), parallel-slurp(1), parallel-nuke(1), ssh(1), rsync(1)AUTHOR
Brent N. Chun <bnc@theether.org>
COPYING
Copyright: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Brent N. Chun
NOTES
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mailto:bnc@theether.org
03/30/2009 PARALLEL-RSYNC(1)