Posted by pmackay on September 23, 2011 at 10:09am
Is there any mechanism to use drush with a hosting service that does not support the use of public key authentication?
thanks
paul
Using drush rsync with passwords
Is there any mechanism to use drush with a hosting service that does not support the use of public key authentication?
thanks
paul
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In your
In your drushrc.php:
$options['ssh-options'] = " -o PasswordAuthentication=no"
Check examples/example.drushrc.php in your drush folder to see if I typed that right.
The better answer is to switch to a better hosting provider. See drush.ws/Resources for a list of ISPs who pre-install drush.
I get the point about
I get the point about changing provider, but if I am to use the current one, they dont support key authentication at all. So setting an option to not use password wouldnt work.
Can drush be configured to actually use password authentication?
Sorry, that was I typo -- I
Sorry, that was I typo -- I put in the default value. Change it to YES and it will work.