Re: [weewx-user] Help with rsync setup for weewx user

['John Kline' via weewx-user]

I assume weewx is running as the weewx user.  What is the remote user specified in your RSYNC section?  It might be best to post your RSYNC section of weewx.conf.  It is unlikely to contain a password. On May 13, 2025, at 5:47 PM, Shane Burkhardt <ingu...@gmail.com> wrote:  I apologize if similar questions have been posted before, but I have not found anything recent and am really banging my head against the wall. I have rsync set-up but it still prompts for passwords for weewx or root users, although the key pair works fine for me as user. I have run keygen as weewx and as root. It looks like it saves root in the /root/.ssh directory but it saves weewx in the /var/lib/weewx/.ssh directory. I have copied the relevant public keys to the authorized keys file for the user on the remote server I am connecting to. Still no luck. I saw very old postings about a config file, but cannot figure out what that is or find recent documentation of what that might be or where that should go. Any help would be much appreciated! I am running weewx on Ubuntu 24.02.02 VM installed via APT. It is using the weewx user to run. My weather station is a WS5000-IP connected through the GX1000 driver. The Weewx version is 5.10. Here is a snippet from the log: May 13 15:00:23 asok weewxd[81319]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: rsync reported errors. Original command: ['rsync', '--archive', '--stats', '-e', 'ssh', '/var/www/weewx> May 13 15:00:23 asok weewxd[81319]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** Permission denied, please try again. May 13 15:00:23 asok weewxd[81319]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** Permission denied, please try again. May 13 15:00:23 asok weewxd[81319]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** x...@my.host.com: Permission denied (publickey,password). May 13 15:00:23 asok weewxd[81319]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] May 13 15:00:23 asok weewxd[81319]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(232) [sender=3.2.7] May 13 15:00:25 asok weewxd[81319]: DEBUG user.gw1000: Next update in 5 seconds -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/b17c5f1d-74fd-4890-bb70-76c0023966fdn%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7FB21703-0810-4AC7-B8FD-22BC9FE42C22%40johnkline.com.