Cannot use rsync for ssh with colon in username

Created November 12, 2024 12:10

I am trying to use run targets with a SSH server. There is an option to use rsync, unfortunately my ssh username has colon in them and rsync will parse them incorrectly.

This is the error details

rsync -n -e "ssh -p 22" <usernameBeforeColon>:<usernameAfterColon>@<sshHost>:
ssh: Could not resolve hostname <usernameBeforeColon<: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(231) [Receiver=3.3.0]

I confirmed that the rsync works if I am using the -l parameter for rsync, like so

rsync -n -e "ssh -p 22 -l <usernameBeforeColon>:<usernameAfterColon>" <sshHost>:
ssh: Could not resolve hostname <usernameBeforeColon<: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Are there other way to make this works?

1 comment

Vadym Veprytskyi

Created November 28, 2024 12:51

Hi Garyteofanus ! Thank you for your question. Could you please try to encode the colon in the username? A format like this %3A replaces the colon (:).

As a result, you should get something like

rsync -n -e "ssh -p 22" <usernameBeforeColon>%3A<usernameAfterColon>@<sshHost>:

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