Timothy Murphy wrote: > Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > >>> Is there incidentally a simple test to determine >>> if ssh is working as required by BackupPC? >> >> See if the BackupPC user can login on the client without entering a >> password. > > Thanks for your comments, which are mostly helpful. > > However, I think the above was slightly misleading. > I have BackupPC working perfectly on 4 computers (server + 3 clients), > but in no case can backuppc on the server > ssh into any of the client machines > without being asked for a password; > and when asked for a password I cannot give one, > since backuppc does not have one. > > I can ssh onto root on the client machines, eg with > ssh -l root mary
I don't really understand the difference. That last example is what I meant. If you cannot SSH into the machines, you cannot run backups over SSH. >> The public key of the backuppc user needs to be in the >> authorized_keys >> file of the user account on the client. Also see >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html > > That is what I found to be the essential point in getting BackupPC > working. > Amazingly, it did not see to be stated clearly in any of the tutorials > I looked at. Well, it's in the official docs and it's standard procedure for using SSH with public key authentication. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
