Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH

[Mark Cockrell]

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:42:45 -0400 From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] A little help with SSH Mark Cockrell wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:35, Mark Cockrell wrote: >> >> >> >>>>You need to be able to ssh from the backuppc server as the user >>>>backuppc (or whatever the server uses) to the client as root without >>>>the password prompt. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Right, I knew that. What I don't understand is why I can't get root >>>access without a password any more. Any thoughts? >>> >>> >> >>Check that the key from the server's /home/backuppc/.ssh directory is >>correct in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on the client. Also be sure >>that the authorized_key2 file and all directories above it are >>only accessible by root. >> >> >> > As far as I can tell everything is just as it should be. I'm stumped. Did you try passwordless login with the -v option? This should indicate any errors. Errors are also logged to a log file, but I don't recall which one. Ah, good call.  When I do that I get the following error message.  Any idea what it means?        "Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted." -- C-ya, Mark ____ The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.