rsync-backup.{in,8}: New option to set the remote user name.

[rsync-backup] / rsync-backup.8

diff --git a/rsync-backup.8 b/rsync-backup.8
index 714b63fc99e4088e236d995e0bfe7400ffed755a..053a4c3ae8d038fc5827bd400583f72d55b5e106 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync-backup.8
+++ b/rsync-backup.8
@@ -158,7 +158,9 @@ will avoid inefficient and pointless messing about
 in this case.
 This command clears the
 .B like
-list, and resets the retention policy to its default (i.e., the to
+list, the remote
+.B user
+name, and resets the retention policy to its default (i.e., the to
 policy defined prior to the first
 .B host
 command).
@@ -251,6 +253,15 @@ for subsequent backups.  Some snapshot types require additional
 arguments, which may be supplied here.  This command clears the
 .B retry
 counter.
+.TP
+.BI "user " name
+Specify the user name on the remote host.  Without this, calls to
+.BR ssh (1)
+and
+.BR rsync (1)
+won't specify any user name, so the default (probably from the
+.BR ssh_config (5)
+file) will apply.
 .SS Configuration variables
 The following shell variables may be overridden by the configuration
 file.