Transferring Files to New Ubuntu System

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Nov 25 18:26:48 UTC 2008


Brian McKee wrote:

> 
> Actually, the default use of rsync does use ssh encryption, just like
> scp.  Unless you are running and rsync daemon, they are both
> encrypted.  rsync's resume feature does make it the better choice of
> course.
> 
> Brian
> 

I don't know about you, but I've never seen rsync default to using ssh 
as the remote shell.  That's always been a command line option or part 
of an alias command with it built in.  I've used rsync on a dozen 
different OS's and never seen that option enabled by default.


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