ssh auth problem - Mirror Your Web Site With rsync

[phenetic]

http://www.howtoforge.com/mirroring_with_rsync_p2

It all works, except for the final public-key authorization.
ssh -v shows that public key fails, even though it is recognized!!!

Any ideas??

root@host [/home/chlngday]# /usr/bin/rsync -aqzu --exclude 'video/' --exclude 'access-logs/' -e "ssh -v -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key" chlngday@server.spameater.com:/home/chlngday/public_html/ /home/chlngday/public_html/
OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to server.spameater.com [72.44.80.21] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0
debug1: identity file /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key type 2
debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.9p1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.9p1 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host 'server.spameater.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:3
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password
debug1: Next authentication method: password
chlngday @ server.spameater.com's password:

[falko]

Does it work when you delete the

command="/home/someuser/rsync/checkrsync",from="mirror.example.com",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty

part from /home/someuser/.ssh/authorized_keys?

[phenetic]

Hi Falko, thanks for your attention.

I did not use that part of the how-to. My authorized keys file looks like this:

ssh-dss AAAAB3Nz..........FKGPvNcI= root@host.spameater.com

If I enter the password, it works fine.

could it be the SSH version mismatch? could version emulation be broken?

Funny thing is that it used to work, but then stopped on its own, months ago.

I have WHM/cpanel, so maybe it updated something.

Could it be a secure-certificate cache issue?

confused.

[falko]

Hm, I think I'd set up the mirroring again from scratch. Maybe somthing's wrong with the keys...

[phenetic]

I've set it up from scratch 3 times now. The keys match. Any ideas?

[falko]

Originally Posted by phenetic

I did not use that part of the how-to. My authorized keys file looks like this:

ssh-dss AAAAB3Nz..........FKGPvNcI= root@host.spameater.com

And you have one key per line, don't you?