RSYNC asks for password, but I followed the HOW-TO for automatic login

[bpmee]

Hi All,

I'm on Fedora Core 5.

I followed the RSYNC "How-To" by Falko, and setup my users and keys on two different servers.

Now, when I get to the last step, I am asked for a password for the user at the site I am trying to mirror.

I searched around the forum, and found a couple possible answers:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...+asks+password

I used an idea from a user suggested on the second page. He/She suggested putting a comma after the final "pty" in the "command..." programming that is added to "authorized keys". Also, this user suggested putting the "ssh...[key]" on its own line. I did this as well...

When I returned to attempt another automatic transfer, I was asked for a password again...

Here is the output of my command request, from the "mirror" server attempting to automatically login into my main server:

** Note, I specified a different folder for the backup on the mirror server on purpose, noted below as "rsyncbm"

** Note, the keys were generated using 1024 bits, not 2048, since for some reason Fedora would not allow 2048 creation.

[root@BACKUP ~]# rsync -avz --delete --exclude=**/stats --exclude=**/error --exclude=**/files/pictures -e "ssh -vi /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key" rsyncbm@me.com:/home/www/ /home/rsyncbm/
OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to me.com [64.x.x.52] 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 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3
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 'me.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1
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
rsyncbm@me.com's password:

My guess is that there is a system configuration for authentications?

[falko]

I wrote the tutorial for Debian, so I cannot say why it doesn't work on Fedora...

[bpmee]

Hi Falko,

No problem - I realize you guys are very busy with the rest of the forum and ISPConfig development...

Perhaps another member has some experience with RSYNC and Fedora Core 5??

[sjau]

well, I see no reason why it shouldn't work also on FC5... please redo all the steps... I've also made errors when doing that but that was solely my fault...