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+What steps will reproduce the problem?
+Set up a remote server using ssh to a FreeNAS box
+
+What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
+Neither rsync nor git-annex are installed
+rsync is in the path, user with permissions is able to run it
+
+What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+4.20130227 OSX
+
+Please provide any additional information below.
+ssh keys were installed to allow login, when ssh-askpass was not found on osx version