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tbh why not jsut set them up with an ssh key that doesn't have an associated passphrase? Besides that, if you don't care about encrypting like you say, then you could replace all calls to ssh with telnet.
At least that's my immediate thoughts.
Because i don't like have passphraseless keys on my devices, i may just be being paranoid.
You can create a key pair that is specifically just for this kind of backup transaction.
To limit its affects, create a user and group on each of the devices that are highly restricted.
This is actually the most secure solution that doesn't require an interactive password prompt. The passwordless key only serves this one purpose and has small attack surface.
Look into ssh agent. It's a program that runs in the background and "caches" ssh keys after you unlock them once.
I have tried but it doesn't really work in the script. You load the key into the agent but it still asks for the passphrase
Maybe these will help:
As long as you restrict the user of those keys access to an interactive shell and limit access to only the directories rsync needs for backup, it's more like giving the pool boy keys to the pool rather than allowing access to the whole house.
Well i gave it readonly access to / because i am trying to sync /etc /home and /root. Is there a way to give access to multiple locations?
It is still many times more secure than using something unencrypted.
If you are truly paranoid you could also use something like borg in append only mode though and put that into a chroot with just the necessary tools on the server side.
Yeah, i think im gonna look into rrsync and try to set up a user with a password-less key