'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 13/08/12 18:06 did gyre and gimble: > On 13/08/12 11:04, Olav Vitters wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:39:07AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: >>> Why would anyone need root login over ssh? I don't allow it on >>> my server and it has never caused me any problems. Su to root >>> works perfectly well and avoids the security risk, so I don't >>> understand this thread. > >> Remote backups. Quite easy to setup an SSH key which only runs >> rsync. > > I use rsync on the server for local backups, and I use SSH with keys > to access the server from laptops for maintenance tasks, but I have > never managed to make rsync over ssh with keys work. People tell me > to just use ssh without keys, but I'm reluctant to do that. Maybe one > day I'll find something that steps me through it, so that I can find > the missing link.
In this case if you want a special key that can *only* run rsync you need to configure your authorized_keys correctly with appropriate command= definition. But even without specific setup if you can ssh between hosts happily, just do "rsync -e ssh" on the client side and just use foo@remote:/path/to/files syntax. Job done :) Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
