Re: [rdiff-backup-users] problems with unattended backup

[dean gaudet]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, dean gaudet wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Carlos Costa Portela wrote:
>
> > debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /root/.ssh/id_rsa_backup.
> > debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
> > debug3: key_read: no key found
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug3: key_read: no space
> > debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END'
> > debug3: key_read: no key found
>
> you shouldn't have -----BEGIN, ------END in your private key file...
> that's all very suspicious.  i'd take a look at the id_rsa_backup file and
> see if it's been trashed somehow.  it should be a binary file (the .pub
> file is text)

er... ignore me :)  i obviously haven't looked at one of these files in a
very long time.  -----BEGIN/END is normal in a v2 private key file... but
it really does look like the problem is your ssh is using v1 of the
protocol, and you're giving it a v2 key.

-dean