Re: [Fab-user] rsync via local

[Thomas Bikeev]

Hi Jeff,

thanks - both workarounds will work for me.

Cheers, Thomas 

 
On Sunday, 12 July, 2009, at 07:03PM, "Jeff Forcier" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Hi Thomas,
>
>In that case, I'm afraid there's nothing that can be done right now;
>outside of prompts -- see below -- there's just no way for local() to
>know when a program needs your password.
>
>However, I *do* want to get improved prompt detection in for Fabric
>1.0, and we may well try to splice in password support like we
>currently have for connection and sudo prompts. So you would be given
>the opportunity to type in the password when a prompt comes up, or
>whack Enter to submit the current env.password value.
>
>Again, though, that's slated for 1.0, and we're currently working on
>getting 0.9 out the door, so it may be a while. Your best bet for now
>is almost definitely to use the --password-file argument to rsync, or
>the RSYNC_PASSWORD shell env var -- see rsync's manpage for more info
>:)
>
>Best,
>Jeff
>
>On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Thomas Bikeev<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> you are right: it seems that local indeed behaves same in 0.01 and 0.9
>>
>> (I am really confused now since I can not reproduce that what I thought was
>> a successful behaviour.)
>>
>> My second thought was I have used local_per_host with success but also this
>> would prompt me for the pw in the scenario where key-based authentication is
>> not possible.
>>
>> So I will dig some more. I guess in a nutshell my problem is:
>>
>> "How to pass externally stored pw to local/rsync command?"
>>
>> Regards, Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10 Jul 2009, at 23:11, Jeff Forcier wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> Could you post some/all of your fabfile and output? (Feel free to mail
>>> me directly if it's anything sensitive.) As far as I can tell,
>>> rsync_project has not changed in any significant fashion, and never
>>> did use any connection-related stuff or fab_password (unless there's
>>> something I am not seeing.)
>>>
>>> If I can see exactly what you're doing it might make things clearer as
>>> to what is actually going on.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Bikeev<address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello List,
>>>>
>>>> I am using fab to rsync some directory to the remote servers. These
>>>> servers
>>>> (unfortunately) do not support key-based authentication and previously
>>>> (in
>>>> 0.1) fab_password was doing his job just fine.
>>>> Now in 0.9 fabric.contrib.project.rsync_project calls "local" rsync and I
>>>> am
>>>> being prompted for the password for each server in the group.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to make rsync_project to accept env.password or similar?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Thomas
>>>>
>>>>
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