Rsync problem

[jiten jha]

Friends,
             As you told . I follow all steps again but when i run "rsync
ssh " command then it is asking root password.
Help me to solve that problem .

jiten jha

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Preston Kutzner <shizzlecash at gmail.com>wrote:

> jiten jha wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >                  I have a problem in Rsync utility . I done this
> >
> > 1> open terminal login super user.
> > 2> ssh-key -t rsa
> > 3> /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
> > 4> scp -r root at 10.0.1.72:/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root at 10.0.1.91:
> /root/.ssh/
> > 5> cat id_rsa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
> > 6> vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> > 7> PermiRootLogin = yes
> > 8> Run this command rsync -r -v -a -e ssh /home/souce computer/
> > root at 10.0.1.91:/home/user name /Desktop
> >
> > when i follow that setps then it is asking root password .
> > Plz help me to solve that problem. I searched on google but not getting
> > solution.
>
> In the above steps, you don't indicate which machines you're running
> those commands on.  It would help us figure out what your problem is if
> you provide that information.
>
> One other possibility that would prevent ssh keys from working when
> connecting to a remote host is wrong file/directory permissions on the
> remote host.  The .ssh directory should have permissions 700 and the
> authorized_keys file should be permissions 644, both owned by the
> appropriate user.
>
> You might also have better success following the steps below:
>
> 1> You can skip steps 1-3 of the original steps you listed if you still
> have the keys you generated originally
>
> 2> You'll want to make sure PermitRemoteLogin = yes is enabled in
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config and that you issue a sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
> on the remote box (if you changed the file) before proceeding to the
> next steps.
>
> 3> Assuming you're copying the id_rsa.pub key from the local machine to
> a remote host, you want to use the command: 'scp <path_to>/id_rsa.pub
> <user>@<remote_host>:' (In the case you stated above, "scp
> <path_to>/id_rsa.pub root at 10.0.0.91:")
>
> 4> Then, issue the command: ssh root@<remote_host> "if [ -d \".ssh\"];
> then cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys; else mkdir .ssh; chmod 700
> .ssh; cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys; fi"
>
> NOTE QUOTES ABOVE:  The above command essentially logs in via ssh, runs
> the command(s) in quotes that follow the ssh login command, then closes
> the session after the command has completed.  Since the command you want
> run on the remote server must be in double-quotes on the local host, you
> must escape any quotes that will be part of the command run on the
> remote host.
>
> Also, the above command checks for the existence of a .ssh directory in
> the user's home, if it exists it then cats out the ssh key to the
> authorized_keys file in .ssh (and creates the file if it doesn't exist).
>  If it does not find a .ssh directory, it creates one, sets the
> appropriate permissions, then cats the ssh key out to the
> authorized_keys file (again, creating the file if it doesn't exist).
>
> 5> run the command: rsync -avr -e "ssh -i
> <path_to_home_dir>/.ssh/<ssh_key>" /path/on/local/machine
> user at host:/path/to/dest
>
> PLEASE NOTE USE OF QUOTES IN ABOVE STEP, THIS IS IMPORTANT!  You can
> omit the -i <path_to_home_dir>/.ssh/<ssh_key> portion if using your
> user's default ssh key.  Otherwise, you must specify the ssh_key if
> you're using one different from the user's default.  Also, be mindful of
> trailing slashes in directory paths, as they do change the behavior of
> rsync.
>
> Those steps should get you to where you need to be.  I tried to make
> them a little more generalized to be portable to any situation.
>
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-- 
Regards
Jitendra Jha
Jr. Linux System Administrator
Hotwax Media Inc., Indore
+91-9893325765
www.hotwaxmedia.com
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