How to do two or more rsyncs with one password?

[joe at actionline.com]

On 08/15/2010 01:23 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
How can one do two or more rsyncs with entering the password just once?

Brian Cluff replied:
> ... do it with just one rsync call:
>
> rsync -avHp --progress subdir1 subdir2 subdir3
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Thanks Brian. That is exactly what I was looking for.

> ... if you need to copy into several different destination
> directories, set up a shared key for ssh and copy the public key
> over to the destinations authorized_keys file.

That is also a very helpful suggestion (others have recommended),
but just haven't got it done yet.