rsync tutorial with ispconfig

[commentator]

Hi,

Found the rsync tutorial today (http://www.howtoforge.com/mirroring_with_rsync)

When running it as someuser it doesn't have permissions to copy the Maildir folders. So I have to run it as root.

Is it possible to make a key, as in tutorial, for root user so the script can run without password? (without effecting the normal root login)
Or is there an other option to get it working?

[falko]

Is it possible to make a key, as in tutorial, for root user so the script can run without password?
Yes, that's possible. Make sure that direct root logins are enabled in your sshd_config.

[bernholdt]

To make it run as root
Do i have to do the following steps as root ?

server1:

(Please do this as someuser!)

mkdir ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
mv ~/mirror-rsync-key.pub ~/.ssh/
cd ~/.ssh
touch authorized_keys
chmod 600 authorized_keys
cat mirror-rsync-key.pub >> authorized_keys

[falko]

Yes, that's right.