X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48C7F0BD.9050102@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:07:25 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rsync ssh authentication issue References: <48C7E8D5.4060303@ditmas.com> In-Reply-To: <48C7E8D5.4060303@ditmas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Peter Dinhofer wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a strange problem running rsync on cygwin in vista. I have > been running a script for years that uses an rsync demon to backup local > files on a remote server. It was set up to use ssh as transport with a > limited command set for security reasons. When I try to run a test > script like, > > rsync -e "ssh -i mycert -c blowfish" myfiles root@remoteserver::/ > > It requests the root password instead of just authenticating. I have > run ssh -i mycert to make sure that I could log in. I have tested this > exact set up on another vista box and it ran without problem. I have run > rsync to the remote server using a different logon to test it also > without a problem. > > Any suggestions? Does 'ssh -i mycert root@remoteserver' work? If not, that suggests a problem with access to 'mycert' to me. Review all your .ssh permissions. And make sure 'remoteserver' understands 'mycert'. In other words, it sounds like something has happened to get in the way of pubkey authentication for ssh. You need to resolve that first. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/