On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Mike Wright
<mike.wright@mailinator.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to use a script to pull some data from a remote machine
> using rsync.
>
> According to the manpage I shouldn't have to interactively provide a
> password if I set RSYNC_PASSWORD.

I believe the section you refer to talks about the rsync daemon. As I
understand, most remote paths like user@host:/path implicitly use ssh.

Maybe you are using ssh and not rsync? If you are using ssh, I would
recommend authenticating with ssh public keys.

HTH.

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