Holger Parplies wrote: >> > Is it not possible that running "ssh -l root <client>" on the server >> > actually sets up the connection appropriately for BackupPC? >> >> No, it should ask for a password if it doesn't find matching keys. > > or, more clearly, no, it is completely impossible. It's *exactly* the same > as asking "isn't it possible that if I try to login as the backuppc user, > the computer will print out the password I need to complete the > procedure?".
Note that I didn't say I wasn't asked for a password when giving the above command - I don't remember. What I said was that _after_ giving the command, and thereby logging in as root on the client (and then exiting) I was able to run BackupPC (through the web interface) and backup a specified directory on the client machine. As it happens, I have a laptop I just installed Fedora-10 on, so it has a clean / . I shall try what I did again (even though I am reasonably well persuaded it is not the right thing to do) and see if it works as I said it did. Actually, I have to catch a plane in 3 hours, and I see I have to "yum update" the laptop with F10 newly installed, so may not have time for this experiment. OK, I did the experiment and I confess that BackupPC did not work until I added the server's backuppc id_rsa.pub to root's authorized_keys . However, I've checked the 4 computers I have backed up successfully, and one of them does not have backuppc's id_rsa.pub in its root's authorized_keys . I'm not sure if running all the operations on the same client (ssh-ing into the server) could have confused things at one point? Possibly it confused me ... In any case, I admit the error of my ways. I have even removed the authorized_keys on the server's backuppc and this does not affect BackupPC's usage. I was right about Berlusconi, though. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
