THAT WAS IT!!!!!! I just had authorized_keys and not authorized_keys2. I knew I had to be close.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Ricker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: Re: rsync: Re: using rsync to backup windows workstations > On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 14:35, Thomas Lambert wrote: > > I thought just a straight rsync daemon was unsecure. I am sending data from > > remote dial-up sites, through the internet to my server. That is why I am > > using ssh (well trying to use it). If this was just for my internal > > network, then YES, I would probably just use the daemon. One other problem > > is that they are dial-up, so each time they connect to the internet, they > > get a new IP. > > You are right: Rsync as a daemon in your environment would be less > secure than ssh. > > > I tried just doing "ssh linuxbox username -a" and I was asked for a > > password. So I changed PasswordAuthentication to "no" in my sshd_config file > > on the server. Restarted sshd and now I am getting permission denied. I did > > copy the contents of my identity.pub, rsa_id.pub, dsa_id.pub to > > authorized_keys on the server. I'm going to read some more on ssh, but if > > anyone knows a quick fix, let me know. > > There are two: make sure the dsa_id.pub is in authorized_keys2 if you > just use '-e ssh' as an option for rsync, this automagically uses ssh > version 2, so you need the '2' you keys file. 'authorized_keys' is for > ssh 1. You can change the -e option to "-e 'ssh 1'" to use > auhtorized_keys (I believe that is the command line; I got ssh 1 doing > authentication but I switched to 2 because it is much more secure). > > Ben Ricker > System Administrator > Wellinx.com > >