As Michael Wu suggested, get ssh to work without
prompting for a password first.
As I understand it from the thread below, you generated
the rsa key for some(?) user on the local machine. Then
you copied that ~/.ssh/identity.pub over to the remote
machine and added that key to the *root* user's
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys file. And you still can't get
the ssh to work without prompting for a password.
First of all, what user did you create the ssh rsa key for
on the local machine? Was it the 'root' user?
I think(?) what you need to do to get ssh to work is
1. sign on to the local machine as the user you created
the ssh rsa key for
2. do this command
ssh root@[remote machine]
and if it's all set up right, you should NOT be
prompted for a password, since the ssh rsa key you
generated for the local user has been loaded into
the root users authorized keys file on the remote
machine.
According to this example in the rsync manpage:
rsync -az -e ssh --delete ~ftp/pub/samba/ nim-
bus:"~ftp/pub/tridge/samba"
I think your rsync might look something like this:
rsync -az -e ssh --delete ~ftp/pub/samba/ nim-
bus:"~ftp/pub/tridge/samba"
/usr/bin/rsync -azl -e ssh root@[remote machine]:/[remote path]/* /[local
path]
Look at this section from the rsync manpage on the
-e, --rsh=COMMAND option:
--------------------------------------------------
-e, --rsh=COMMAND
This option allows you to choose an alternative remote shell
program to use for communication between the local and remote
copies of rsync. Typically, rsync is configured to use rsh by
default, but you may prefer to use ssh because of its high secu-
rity.
If this option is used with [user@]host::module/path, then the
remote shell COMMMAND will be used to run an rsync server on the
remote host, and all data will be transmitted through that
remote shell connection, rather than through a direct socket
connection to a running rsync server on the remote host. See
the section "CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL
PROGRAM" above.
I think you were missing the [user@] part of the remote host.
HTH.
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Hardy Merrill
Red Hat, Inc.
James Pifer [jamesredhatlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> ssh also prompts for a password, but can't figure out why.
>
> Thanks.
> James
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 22:54, Michael Wu wrote:
> > ããIt is seemed that you use "root" to do rsync. Please make sure the
> > ssh connection with public/private keys works first.
> >
> > ããGood luck.
> >
> > ããããããããããããããMichael
> >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > äé(Subject):
> > > Re: rsync with public/private keys/no passwords
> > > åää(From):
> > > James Pifer <jamesredhatlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ææ:
> > > 24 Nov 2003 11:05:38 -0500
> > > æää(To):
> > > RedHat List <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
> > >Even when I run these commands first, I still get prompted for a
> > >password. Any other suggestions?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >James
> > >
> > >On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:40, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>James Pifer <jamesredhatlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>For some reason I cannot get rsync to work with public/private key
> > >>>authentication with no passwords.
> > >>>
> > >>>My first try was this:
> > >>>On the system that runs rsync:
> > >>> ssh-keygen -C [hostname] -t "rsa" -f ~/.ssh/identity (no password)
> > >>>
> > >>>On the remote machine:
> > >>> copy the identity.pub that you just created above to /root/.ssh
> > >>> cat hostname.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
> > >>> chmod 600 authorized_keys
> > >>>
> > >>>On the system that runs rsync:
> > >>> /usr/bin/rsync -azl -e ssh [remote machine]:/[remote path]/* /[local
> > >>>path]
> > >>>
> > >>>It's still prompting me for a password. I also tried it this way:
> > >>>
> > >>>On the system that runs rsync:
> > >>> ssh-keygen -t rsa (no password)
> > >>> rename id_rsa id_rsa_hostname.pub
> > >>> copy file to remote machine /root/.ssh
> > >>>On the remote machine:
> > >>> cat id_rsa_hostname.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>I don't see you starting the agent anywhere. You must start the
> > >>agent in the shell you run rsync in.
> > >>
> > >>ssh-agent bash
> > >>shh-add
> > >>now rsync
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