Commit 9586e593 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Improved the docs for the --password-file option.

parent ce455b03
......@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ to the detailed description below for a complete description. verb(
--out-format=FORMAT output updates using the specified FORMAT
--log-file=FILE log what we're doing to the specified FILE
--log-file-format=FMT log updates using the specified FMT
--password-file=FILE read password from FILE
--password-file=FILE read daemon password from FILE
--list-only list the files instead of copying them
--bwlimit=KBPS limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per second
--write-batch=FILE write a batched update to FILE
......@@ -1717,12 +1717,14 @@ dit(bf(-P)) The bf(-P) option is equivalent to bf(--partial) bf(--progress). It
purpose is to make it much easier to specify these two options for a long
transfer that may be interrupted.
dit(bf(--password-file)) This option allows you to provide a password
in a file for accessing a remote rsync daemon. Note that this option
is only useful when accessing an rsync daemon using the built in
transport, not when using a remote shell as the transport. The file
must not be world readable. It should contain just the password as a
single line.
dit(bf(--password-file)) This option allows you to provide a password in a
file for accessing an rsync daemon. The file must not be world readable.
It should contain just the password as a single line.
When accessing an rsync daemon using a remote shell as the transport, this
option only comes into effect after the remote shell finishes its
authentication (i.e. if you have also specified a password in the daemon's
config file).
dit(bf(--list-only)) This option will cause the source files to be listed
instead of transferred. This option is inferred if there is a single source
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