Is there a way to get Unison not to prompt me for a password every time I run it (e.g., so that I can run it every half hour from a shell script)?
It's actually ssh that's asking for the password. If you're running the Unison client on a Unix system, you should check out the 'ssh-agent' facility in ssh. If you do
ssh-agent bash
(or ssh-agent startx, when you first log in) it will start you a shell (or an X Windows session) in which all processes and sub-processes are part of the same ssh-authorization group. If, inside any shell belonging to this authorization group, you run the ssh-add program, it will prompt you once for a password and then remember it for the duration of the bash session. You can then use Unison over ssh---or even run it repeatedly from a shell script---without giving your password again.
It may also be possible to configure ssh so that it does not require any password: just enter an empty password when you create a pair of keys. If you think it is safe enough to keep your private key unencrypted on your client machine, this solution should work even under Windows.
Wat naar ik begrijp dien je een apart shellscript nodig te hebben wat Unison opstart en Unison zo in te stellen dat je het niet met root rechten hoeft te openen.
Ik denk dat er op het forum genoeg mensen zijn die zo'n scriptje kunnen schrijven.
Daar kan ik je helaas niet mee helpen.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Gijs
