-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 14/08/12 10:01, Colin Guthrie wrote: > '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 :) > Sure, but knowing how prone we all are to forget, my intention was to do it by cron :-) As I said, I can manually do anything I need to, but I want scheduled checks for changed files. Annoyingly, I have to say that the only part I have working for that is the Windows 7 backup of my embroidery project files. When I'm working there, changes are backed up four times a day.
I'm guessing that Windows is using my local mount of the appropriate drive on the server, and I tried doing that in Linux, thinking it would solve it, but no matter what I do, I still get "denied". It has to be something about the way the keys are passed to the server when using cron, as I can use the local mount to move things around in Dolphin with no problems whatsoever. If I ssh from konsole it is clear that my keys are being passed. I don't think cron is doing that. Anne - -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or http://forum.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAqZx8ACgkQj93fyh4cnBdnowCgillA7xTkrC2YvQg5Et1gxT2k wNMAn0a8hRmIkOWYd+iBJ75X6Xn1BgWN =K4Z6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
