Re: amflush surprize auth=ssh.

2021-08-24 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 07:06:44PM +, Debra S Baddorf wrote: Wasn’t there, at some point, a parameter in addition to the chunksize param? I’m using chunking, but yes, the whole set of chunks is always re-taped. But I’m using real tapes so that’s what I want. Wasn’t there another

Re: amflush surprize auth=ssh.

2021-08-24 Thread Debra S Baddorf
Wasn’t there, at some point, a parameter in addition to the chunksize param? I’m using chunking, but yes, the whole set of chunks is always re-taped. But I’m using real tapes so that’s what I want. Wasn’t there another parameter, besides chunking onto the holding disk, which actually allowed

Re: amflush surprize auth=ssh.

2021-08-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 06:30:24PM +0100, Jose M Calhariz wrote: Hi, What you describe is what I see when I do not use chunks. The last backup to the last vtape will be transfered again to vtape on next amdump or amflush. Kind regards Jose M Calhariz Yes, that is the historically desired

Re: amflush surprize auth=ssh.

2021-08-23 Thread Jose M Calhariz
Hi, What you describe is what I see when I do not use chunks. The last backup to the last vtape will be transfered again to vtape on next amdump or amflush. Kind regards Jose M Calhariz On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 02:40:52PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I have one large DLE that gets broken into

amflush surprize auth=ssh.

2021-08-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
I have one large DLE that gets broken into about 45 chunks for taping. My vtapes hold 20 of these chunks and I allow up to 3 tapes to be used nightly. Two evening back another large DLE was in the same dump so only about 30 of the 45 chunks fit on the three tapes. Today I ran amflush thinking

Upload of amanda 3.5.1-8 to Debian with new documentation about auth=ssh.

2021-08-22 Thread Jose M Calhariz
Hi, I just upload a new package of amanda 3.5.1-8 to Debian. The NEWS is: * That I have updated the README.Debian with instructions for auth=ssh and more simple examples. * Added to a patch to build amanda with a new libc6, this patch came from Fedora and maybe interesting to merge

Re: Configuring Auth SSH for a client behind a firewall

2010-12-14 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
, + rc-hostname, xamandad_path, -auth=ssh, amdump, amindexd, + amidxtaped); +} +else { + g_debug(exec: %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s, + SSH, SSH_OPTIONS, -l, xclient_username, -p, client_port, + -i, xssh_keys, rc-hostname, xamandad_path, -auth=ssh, + amdump, amindexd

[Amanda-users] A question about how ssh auth works

2010-12-14 Thread k anderson3454
Thanks so much for this information. +-- |This was sent by k.anderson3...@yahoo.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--

Re: A question about how ssh auth works

2010-12-12 Thread stan
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:32:39AM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: In the case, what does the ssh daemon on the clinet machhine do when it recies the requst from the Amanda server ? The server essentially does 'ssh client /usr/local/libexec/amandad ...' How does it know

Re: A question about how ssh auth works

2010-12-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
stan wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:32:39AM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: In the case, what does the ssh daemon on the clinet machhine do when it recies the requst from the Amanda server ? The server essentially does 'ssh client /usr/local/libexec/amandad ...'

A question about how ssh auth works

2010-12-11 Thread stan
We have just set up our first client using ssh auth. This machine is behind firewall, and has a non routbale address (192.168,x,x). The firewall is set up such that ssh from outside for this machine goes to port 1026, and is port fwarded via the firewall to the clinet. I set this up following

Re: A question about how ssh auth works

2010-12-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
In the case, what does the ssh daemon on the clinet machhine do when it recies the requst from the Amanda server ? The server essentially does 'ssh client /usr/local/libexec/amandad ...'

Configuring Auth SSH for a client behind a firewall

2010-12-10 Thread Debbie O Connell
Hi, We are trying to setup Amanda for 1 client behind a firewall with Auth SSH for the first time. The machines behind the firewall are all NATed. The firewall will not allow us to port redirect port 22. As a result, all the machines behind the firewall have non-standard SSH port numbers

Re: Configuring Auth SSH for a client behind a firewall

2010-12-10 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Debbie O Connell wrote: Hi, We are trying to setup Amanda for 1 client behind a firewall with Auth SSH for the first time. The machines behind the firewall are all NATed. The firewall will not allow us to port redirect port 22. As a result, all the machines behind the firewall have non

Re: Configuring Auth SSH for a client behind a firewall

2010-12-10 Thread Debbie O Connell
, December 10, 2010 4:32:56 PM Subject: Re: Configuring Auth SSH for a client behind a firewall Debbie O Connell wrote: Hi, We are trying to setup Amanda for 1 client behind a firewall with Auth SSH for the first time. The machines behind the firewall are all NATed. The firewall will not allow us

auth question

2010-06-14 Thread McGraw, Robert P
My amanda server is 2.6.1p2 my clients are 2.5 Presently I am just using bsd security because that is what I have always been using. I am told that it would be best to go to bstcp as this is more up to date. I want to install the amanda for window and it says that I have to use bsdtcp for

Re: auth question

2010-06-14 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu wrote: If I compile with --with-bsdtcp-security and bsd, can my 2.6.1p2 server use bsd security for some clients and bsdtcp for other clients and would I set this in the define dumptype? Absolutely. Dustin -- Open

Auth= question

2009-06-16 Thread Robert P McGraw Jr
\ --enable-manpage-build \ --enable-static-binary \ --disable-s3-device \ QUESTIONS: In my amanda-2.5.2p1 I have only been using ‹with-bsd-security and auth=bsd. For amanda-2.6.1p1: 1) Is it ok to have multiple ‹with-bsd*-security lines? 2) is auth=bsd valid 3) do I

SSH auth/EOF on read: planner failure?

2009-04-13 Thread Sam Hooker
this problem is distracting me from my _real_ work... For those possessed of godlike depth-of-knowledge, here's the executive summary: SSH auth works, amcheck seems happy, amdump produces planner: ERROR Request to zoe.x.noiseplant.com failed: EOF on read from zoe.x.noiseplant.com, planner plans

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-07-01 Thread Chad Kotil
the keytab. It doesnt seem to be doing that. Also, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-07-01 Thread Chad Kotil
Yah, A little background might help. UVWX.YZ.EDU is the realm of my secondary KDC for these two hosts (the clients) which I am trying to configure krb auth on. YZ.EDU is the primary KDC on these hosts. These two hosts are my bastion servers , i.e. hop off boxes to protect my local

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-07-01 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
If your realm is YZ.EDU, then that's what you use. If UVWX.YZ.EDU is a host name and not a realm name, then it doesn't belong in your principal names. Can you explain why you want to auth against the secondary rather than the primary? I can't think of any reason that should matter. -Mitch

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5-security, added a new principal to my KDC ([EMAIL PROTECTED] REALM), and wrote a keytab file and placed it on the server

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
that. Also, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
() == 0) { if (strcasecmp(auth, krb5) != 0) { error(_('%s' auth require amandad to be run as '%s'), auth, CLIENT_LOGIN); } } else { if (strcasecmp(auth, krb5) == 0) { error(_('krb5' auth require amandad to be run as root

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-26 Thread Chad Kotil
seem to be doing that. Also, What keytab on the client needs to be read as root? --Chad On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server

krb5 auth problem

2008-06-25 Thread Chad Kotil
I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5-security, added a new principal to my KDC ([EMAIL PROTECTED] REALM), and wrote a keytab file and placed it on the server. It is locked down so only amandabackup (the user that runs amanda) can read

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Pearson
= /usr/libexec/amandad server_args = -auth=krb5 disable = no } HTH, --- AlanP On 25 Jun 2008, at 21:45, Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5-security, added a new principal to my KDC ([EMAIL PROTECTED] REALM), and wrote

Re: krb5 auth problem

2008-06-25 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
xinetd must be configured to run amandad as root. Jean-Louis Chad Kotil wrote: I am trying to setup krb5 auth on amanda 2.6.0p1. I built the server and client --with-krb5-security, added a new principal to my KDC ([EMAIL PROTECTED] REALM), and wrote a keytab file and placed it on the server

variety of users w/ ssh-auth

2007-10-04 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hello, I have an amanda setup using auth-ssh, but I'm running into a bit of a problem. I've compiled amanda by hand on most of the boxes I'm backing up (including the server), but I'd like to use the rpm's from zmanda.org on my servers that have packages available. The problem is that I can't

Re: variety of users w/ ssh-auth

2007-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
man amanda.conf DUMPTYPE SECTION client_username string Default: CLIENT_LOGIN. Specify the username to connect on the client, only use with rsh/ssh authentification. Cameron Matheson wrote: Hello, I have an amanda setup using auth-ssh, but I'm running into a bit

Re: variety of users w/ ssh-auth

2007-10-04 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote: man amanda.conf DUMPTYPE SECTION client_username string Default: CLIENT_LOGIN. Specify the username to connect on the client, only use with rsh/ssh authentification. Don't know how I missed

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-05 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:30:55PM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote: I am running Ubuntu 7.04 on i386 on the server host. Tried gcc-4.1 and gcc-3.3. Downloaded 2.5.2p1 from Amanda website. This is how I configured 2.5.2p1 sources: ./configure --prefix=/opt/amanda --with-user=amanda

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-05 Thread Ralf Auer
Hi Dustin, the 2.5.2p1 that produce this error were not from Ubuntu but from the Amanda download page! Only the 2.5.1p1 sources have been downloaded from Ubuntu. On some machines the Ubuntu sources compile only, when libreadline5-dev is installed, on some machines they don't need

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-05 Thread Ralf Auer
Hi Dustin, it's working now! Still kinda strange for me. What I did was the following: I purged the 'flex', 'bison' and 'libreadline5-dev' Ubuntu packages from my office machine. (Those packages are not installed on my laptop, where the sources cleanly compiled yesterday). After this

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-05 Thread Ralf Auer
Perhaps, as the testing process gets started in the community version (no, folks, I haven't forgotten!), you can help us out with Ubuntu testing. Just let me know... By the way, maybe you could also answer this question: I need a completely statically linked Amanda for some hosts. Is it

Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Ralf Auer
Hi all, I am just upgrading my Amanda from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1p1 (2.5.2p1 does not compile at all). I am very happy about the new 'ssh-auth' feature in 2.5. It works now in my test setup (only 2 DLEs). The question I have now, is, wether ssh is used ONLY for authentication, or if ALL dumps

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Steve Newcomb
I've been using ssh-auth since the earliest days of 2.5. Yes, the dumps themselves go through the ssh tunnel. I have not noticed any appreciable increase in backup time, at least on our system, which has over 400 DLEs. (I'm not sure why the number of DLEs would be relevant, really.) Ralf Auer

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Ralf Auer wrote: Hi all, I am just upgrading my Amanda from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1p1 (2.5.2p1 does not compile at all). I am very happy about the new 'ssh-auth' feature in 2.5. It works now in my test setup (only 2 DLEs). The question I have now, is, wether ssh is used ONLY

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:59:12PM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote: I am just upgrading my Amanda from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1p1 (2.5.2p1 does not compile at all). I am very happy about the new 'ssh-auth' feature in 2.5. It works now in my test setup (only 2 DLEs). Do you mind expounding

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Ralf Auer
meant. Thanks again, Ralf Ralf Auer schrieb: Hi all, I am just upgrading my Amanda from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1p1 (2.5.2p1 does not compile at all). I am very happy about the new 'ssh-auth' feature in 2.5. It works now in my test setup (only 2 DLEs). The question I have now

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Ralf Auer
to 2.5.1p1 (2.5.2p1 does not compile at all). I am very happy about the new 'ssh-auth' feature in 2.5. It works now in my test setup (only 2 DLEs). Do you mind expounding on the compilation problems with 2.5.2p1? What OS/architecture? What error(s) did you see? Thanks! Dustin -- Ralf

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Ralf Auer
'ssh-auth' feature in 2.5. It works now in my test setup (only 2 DLEs). Do you mind expounding on the compilation problems with 2.5.2p1? What OS/architecture? What error(s) did you see? Thanks! Dustin -- Ralf Auer Physics Institute IVOffice: 2.137 University

Re: Amanda 2.5.1.p1 ssh-auth

2007-08-04 Thread Ralf Auer
schrieb: On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:59:12PM +0200, Ralf Auer wrote: I am just upgrading my Amanda from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1p1 (2.5.2p1 does not compile at all). I am very happy about the new 'ssh-auth' feature in 2.5. It works now in my test setup (only 2 DLEs). Do you mind expounding

Re: amrecover using ssh-auth

2007-05-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jean-Louis Martineau schrieb: Because the host key is not known. Try: ssh ng.oops.intern -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa -l amanda and accept the host key. Yup, that was it, thanks. I had contacted as user root, as it seems, importing the key there. ssh doesn't use xinetd. Does that mean I can

amrecover using ssh-auth

2007-04-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
This doesn't work for me since I tried it first with 2.5.1p2 on client and server : Followed the zmanda-howto (http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Configuring_SSH_authentication), could be a bit more explicit in some points IMO ... -- Can't use amrecover via ssh-auth here. I always get

Re: amrecover using ssh-auth

2007-04-30 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
(http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Configuring_SSH_authentication), could be a bit more explicit in some points IMO ... -- Can't use amrecover via ssh-auth here. I always get: # amrecover dds -s ng -t ng Host key verification failed. AMRECOVER Version 2.5.2b1. Contacting server on ng ... [request

-auth vs 2.4.4p1 clients 2.5.1p2 server

2007-01-19 Thread Deb Baddorf
What kind of configuration do I need, now that I've upgraded my server to 2.5.1p2? Most of the clients are 2.4.something and are no longer able to connect to do a recover, although dumps work fine. The server is itself a client. It can do a recover now, but if we change something I'll

Re: -auth vs 2.4.4p1 clients 2.5.1p2 server

2007-01-19 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Since you are using the old amindexd/amidxtaped protocol, you must configure them in your server xinetd the same way you did for your amanda 2.4.5 server. Deb Baddorf wrote: What kind of configuration do I need, now that I've upgraded my server to 2.5.1p2? Most of the clients are

Re: 2.5.1 bsdtcp auth under irix: which ports?

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
\ --with-testing=conf10 \ ­-with-tcpportrange=20482,20993 \ --with-udpportrange=955,978 \ Under the bsdtcp auth scheme which amanda ports should I define in /etc/services? Right now I have the following: amanda-conf10 10116

Re: 2.5.1 bsdtcp auth under irix: which ports?

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
\ Under the bsdtcp auth scheme which amanda ports should I define in /etc/services? Right now I have the following: amanda-conf10 10116/tcp amanda-conf10 10116/udp kamanda-conf10 10117/udp amandaidx-conf10 10118/tcp amidxtape-conf10 10119/tcp and inetd.conf looks

Re: 2.5.1 bsdtcp auth under irix: which ports?

2006-09-12 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Looking at the selfcheck debug files for the client (server is the only client at the moment) there is a warning about amanda-client.conf not being in the (wrong) place I assume but then it proceed to find it at the right place. I'm not sure if it's the normal

ssh AUTH howto?

2006-03-30 Thread Jason Castonguay
Hi list, Maybe I missed something in the documentation, wiki, faq, forum, or in the list archives, but besides adding ssh authentication in the dumptype what steps does one take to use it? I assume its using keys and the amanda backup user then runs a command via ssh. Does it only use amandad

Re: ssh AUTH howto?

2006-03-30 Thread Kevin Till
Jason Castonguay wrote: Hi list, Maybe I missed something in the documentation, wiki, faq, forum, or in the list archives, but besides adding ssh authentication in the dumptype what steps does one take to use it? 1. set auth ssh in the dumptype 2. both server and client must be configured

Re: ssh AUTH howto?

2006-03-30 Thread Kevin Till
/~jcastonguay/ They still need a bit of polish, but work for me. one more thing, needs to configure Amanda with --with-ssh-security. It will install dumper/amcheck non-suid. --Kevin 1. set auth ssh in the dumptype 2. both server and client must be configured exactly the same a. username

Re: amcheck auth problem (was: amcheck Host Down?????)

2004-02-10 Thread Sören Edzen
* Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-09 22:02]: Hi! I'm a newbee on amanda and haven't yet managed to get amanda to work. The problem in this thread is similar to the one I have. I've tried the solution sugested by Gene Haskett. I have made the changes you sugested in the files amanda,

Re: amcheck auth problem (was: amcheck Host Down?????)

2004-02-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Sören, on Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 at 10:41 you wrote to amanda-users: SE I have the following in SE [amanda home]/.amandahosts(indented here only for visability): SE localhost amanda SE [EMAIL PROTECTED] amanda SE [EMAIL PROTECTED] root SE [EMAIL PROTECTED]root SE

Re: amcheck auth problem (was: amcheck Host Down?????)

2004-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 04:41, Sören Edzen wrote: * Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-09 22:02]: Hi! I'm a newbee on amanda and haven't yet managed to get amanda to work. The problem in this thread is similar to the one I have. I've tried the solution sugested by Gene Haskett. I have

amanda auth hosts problem

2002-04-03 Thread Tom Van de Wiele
Hello list I have a backupserver with two partitions on it that need to be backup'd + 2 clients. I have a .amandahosts in the amanda user's $HOME. It has this in it: [cut] hostname.eduline.be amanda [/cut] To make backups, this works fine. But when I want to amrecover files, I get that

Re: amanda auth hosts problem

2002-04-03 Thread Don Potter
You are actually supposed to run amrecover as root...which makes sense being that would be the account that would be doing a restore or a recover typically. Don Tom Van de Wiele wrote: Hello list I have a backupserver with two partitions on it that need to be backup'd + 2 clients. I have a

Re: amanda auth hosts problem

2002-04-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 at 6:25pm, Tom Van de Wiele wrote Hello list I have a backupserver with two partitions on it that need to be backup'd + 2 clients. I have a .amandahosts in the amanda user's $HOME. It has this in it: [cut] hostname.eduline.be amanda [/cut] To make backups,

auth

2001-05-08 Thread Bob Miranda
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