On 2015-01-29 at 20:23:21, Alexander Zangerl wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:10:34 +1300, Francois Marier writes:
> >After upgrading from duplicity 0.6.24-2 to 0.7.01-1, my backups to an ssh
> >host stopped working.
> 
> i can't reproduce that; i've just used 0.7.01 sftp and scp backups
> without major problems, using sftp://me@somehost/location as well as
> scp://me@somehost/location.

This is what fails for me:

duplicity cleanup --ssh-options="-oIdentityFile=id_rsa 
-oUserKnownHostsFile=known_hosts" --force scp://user@hostname/backup

> >Now, if I try to run any of the duplicity commands, I get the following:
> >
> >  BackendException: ssh connection to user@hostname:22 failed: No 
> > authenticatio
> >n methods available
> 
> looks like you need to set up ssh-agent and key auth, or 
> use --ssh-askpass or provide the password to duplicity via FTP_PASSWORD.
> i've tested all three options and they work fine.

I'm using a password-less key (as per the above command-line) so it's not a
password or ssh-agent problem.

> it looks as if the strictness of the auth handling changed somewhere
> between 0.6.24 and 0.7.01, but the changelog doesn't show anything pertinent.

There's also the possibility that it doesn't have anything to do with
authentication. paramiko has a tendency to return misleading or unhelpful
messages, unfortunately.

Francois

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