Re: SSH w/ root and keypair authentication problem

2002-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:00:43AM -0800, Adar Dembo wrote: > Note the use of PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only which should allow > me to ssh in as root, using my keys, as long as I run a command afterwards. Beware that 'PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only' was broken in 1:3.4p1-1, the versi

Re: SSH w/ root and keypair authentication problem

2002-12-18 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Adar Dembo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021218 03:02]: > I'm trying to create a backup script that will, when run, connect to > another computer, and rsync all of its partitions into the local computer. > > In order to be able to rsync properly and copy all the files, the user > logging in must be roo

SSH w/ root and keypair authentication problem

2002-12-18 Thread Adar Dembo
I'm trying to create a backup script that will, when run, connect to another computer, and rsync all of its partitions into the local computer. In order to be able to rsync properly and copy all the files, the user logging in must be root. However, this poses a problem, as PermitRootLogin was "