using sshpass does not seem to work with fpsync about fpart HOT 4 CLOSED

Hello Youssef !

Fpsync starts ssh commands in the background through a non-interactive shell, thus stdin is redirected from /dev/null (at least on FreeBSD) and I don't know how sshpass can cope with that. The best way to connect passwordless is probably to use a ssh key (playing with a ssh_config(5) file) but if you want to try to hack around ssh calls, check the SSH_BIN variable (https://github.com/martymac/fpart/blob/master/tools/fpsync#L1104). You may want to initialize it with sshpass instead of ssh and add a SSH_OPTS variable. Something like :

SSH_BIN="$(command -v sshpass)"
SSH_OPTS="$(command -v ssh)"

and then add ${SSH_OPTS} to ${SSH_BIN} calls later in the code.

Tell me how it goes, those two variables could become new options to fpsync :)

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Hello @martymac, thank you for the quick reply. Just to be clear about my use case, I'm not trying to use sshpass for Fpsync SSH workers. I'm trying to use it only for the SSH session of Rsync itself.
I'll mess around with the script and see how things goes, and report back.

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@martymac I've managed to make it work as I wanted

• create a simple shell script rsync.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sshpass -e rsync "$@"

• run fpsync like this:

SSHPASS=somepassword fpsync -n 4 -f 3 -T /path/to/rsync.sh src/ server:dst/

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Wow, perfect ! And thanks for your feedback :)

Cheers,

Ganael.

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