Hi Luis,
Just as I thought, it now works!!! Thanks to you for sticking with me
to find my mistake. Only on a computer can you find twenty ways to make
the same mistake! -- ken
>>> PROBLEM SOLVED <<<
============== previous reply ======================
Hi Luis,
I did a line by line compare of our sshd_config files. While your file
has:
#PermitRootLogin no
my file has:
PermitRootLogin yes
Commented out or set to yes should be equivalent.
BUT I did find that at some point in time, I had added:
AllowUsers ken
to deny access to all except specified users.
I revised this to
AllowUsers ken, backuppc, root
I can now login as root:
ssh r...@hostname
password for root: ****************
I believe that this was the problem, but will have to try sending the
keys to be sure. I will let you know after I have run back and forth
between the machines. -- ken
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 00:48 +0000, Luis Paulo wrote:
> Hi, ken
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> I can't understand why the root password is not accepted.
> You may try the -v switch, as in
>
> scp -v ~/.ssh/BackupPC_id_rsa.pub r...@192.168.1.101:/root/.ssh/
>
> Next is my sshd_config. See if it helps
>> Hi Luis,
>>
>> I really appreciate your help. I've tried the key generation
>> multiple times and can't believe that every time I mistype the >> >>
>> password! The keys are phrase-less. /root/.ssh
>> and /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh have 700 permissions. The authorized_keys
>> file has 600 permission. The newly created keys have 644 permissions
>> and are set after transfer with the command: chmod -R go-rwx ~/.ssh
>>
>> On the server, I su to root then su to backuppc. Working as
>> backuppc, the command that is not working is:
>>
>> scp ~/.ssh/BackupPC_id_rsa.pub r...@192.168.1.101:/root/.ssh/
>>
>> I get no error, just a prompt to enter the root password for
>> 192.168.1.101. I enter the password, but it is not accepted and asks
>> me to try again. I can occasionally mistype a complicated password,
>> but I have carefully checked each key stroke.
>>
>> Working as root on machine at 192.168.1.101, the command that is not
>> working is:
>>
>> scp ~/.ssh/client_id_rsa.pub
>> r...@192.168.1.106:/var/lib/bacuppc/.ssh/client_id_rsa.pub
>>
>> Again, no error and prompted for root password which is not accepted.
>>
>> I have root passwords for both of these machines and have no problem
>> elevating to root to execute all other functions.
>>
>> As a test, I ssh connected to the backuppc server at 192.168.1.106
>> from 192.168.1.101. I issued the following command:
>> scp /home/ken/20100308.backuppc_install.txt
>> k...@192.168.1.101:/home/ken/
>>
>> I was prompted for password for ken and the command completed with no
>> problem. -- ken
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:56 +0000, Luis Paulo wrote:
>>> :)
>>> So,
>>> you may tell us exactly the scp command you are trying (or use
>>> ssh-copy-id command instead, which I recommend).
>>>
>>> I would still try to connect between two non root users to see if it
>>> also doesn't work
>>>
>>> Are you creating rsa files with or without password?
>>>
>>> Wrong permissions for the .ssh dir may also be the problem.
>>> $ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
>>> $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>>> Remember to restart ssh after changes :)
>>>
>>> maybe show us your client /etc/ssh/sshd_config if none of the above
>>> helps/work (check for AllowUsers directives, etc)
>>>
>>> Luis
>>>
>>> PS: I guess you are planning to use
>>> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath
>>> $argList+';
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Kenneth L. Owen
>>>> <tx836...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi Luis,
>>>>
>>>> I thought you had the answer! But when I checked, I found the
>>>> files are set to allow root logon. -- ken
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