[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Unable to backup due to remote system closing connection

[Chris G]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:17:28AM +0000, Alex Pounds wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:11:46AM +0000, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> > There is a long thread about this issue at
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3618. But the
> > problem in the end seemed to be (in this case) that the user had
> > generated the authorized_keys file with nano and had not switched
> > off hard wrapping, so that when the file was saved nano broke up the
> > line.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, but that doesn't seem to be the problem in this
> case: 
> 
> gertie ~$ sudo wc -l /mnt/backup/.ssh/authorized_keys
> 1 /mnt/backup/.ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> Catting the authorized_keys file with the -A option shows only one
> end-of-line character, too. 
> 
My approach would be to take all the ssh restrictions off on gertie
and get ssh passwordless login working for an ordinary login.  Get
rdiff-backup working with this setup and *then* start adding the ssh
restrictions to make it more secure.

-- 
Chris Green