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24 changes: 17 additions & 7 deletions rsync.1.md
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Expand Up @@ -365,16 +365,26 @@ RSYNC_RSH in the environment will not turn on this functionality.) For example:

> rsync -av --rsh=ssh host::module /dest

If you need to specify a different remote-shell user, keep in mind that the
user@ prefix in front of the host is specifying the rsync-user value (for a
module that requires user-based authentication). This means that you must give
the '-l user' option to ssh when specifying the remote-shell, as in this
example that uses the short version of the [`--rsh`](#opt) option:
A "user@" prefix in front of the host serves two purposes at once in this mode:
it is the rsync-user value (used to log in to a module that requires user-based
authentication) and, by default, it is also passed to the remote shell as the
login user. So the simple form

> rsync -av --rsh=ssh user@host::module /dest

runs `ssh -l user host` and offers "user" as the rsync-user to the module; the
two are forced to be the same name.

If you need the remote-shell (ssh) login to use a different name than the
rsync-user, give an explicit '-l' option to ssh in the remote-shell command.
When ssh is already told which user to log in as, rsync does not add its own
'-l', so the "user@" prefix is then used only as the rsync-user. For example,
using the short version of the [`--rsh`](#opt) option:

> rsync -av -e "ssh -l ssh-user" rsync-user@host::module /dest

The "ssh-user" will be used at the ssh level; the "rsync-user" will be used to
log-in to the "module".
Here "ssh-user" is used at the ssh level while "rsync-user" is used to log in to
the "module".

In this setup, the daemon is started by the ssh command that is accessing the
system (which can be forced via the `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` file, if desired).
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