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Copy the public key

Copy the RSA or DSA key over to the remote system. It is important that you install and startup the rsyncd server on that remote system before doing this copy. To copy the key use the following commands:

$ rsync -av id_rsa.pub  pw7:.ssh/authorized_keys

test@pw7's password: *******
sending incremental file list
id_rsa.pub
sent 488 bytes  received 37 bytes  95.45 bytes/sec
total size is 396  speedup is 0.75

See Also

Installing rsync on a Linux system

Check if already installed

Generate security keys