rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Kevin Kofler]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> Everything is set up exactly as you say, except that there is a
> passphrase. Surely you lose security if you remove it?

If you want automated scripts to be able to connect without you typing in a 
passphrase, you have to have the passphrase stored somewhere, at which point 
it doesn't really add any security anymore (you just have 2 files the 
attacker would have to read instead of 1; in both cases, he or she needs a 
way to read files which are supposed to be readable only by you (and root, 
unless it's a daemon which dropped the dac_override capability)).

        Kevin Kofler