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		viraptor on April 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks i... How do you expect an automated process to work over SSH if it has to ask for a password?

koolba on April 18, 2021 [–]

I wouldn’t expect an automated process to be using a human’s account to access a remote system.

viraptor on April 18, 2021 | [–]

You're assuming this is a "human's" account. Also it could be a single-purpose key limited to a single static command on the rsync side.

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