[Wylug-help] Backing up to remote host - using keychain for passwords

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 19:07:10 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17:55:35 A J Cole wrote:
> > Anne,
> > 
> > I think you mentioned mouting (automounting?) filesystems as part of
> > your problem description (I haven't checked back so may be wrong).
> > 
> > If that is the case you need to check the ownershap and protection of
> > the mount points (ie. pre-mount): odd settings can affect access rights
> > to the (over-)mounted filsystem.
> 
> The remote directories are on drives mounted in fstab.  I'm not worried
> about these backups running when I'm not logged in - it's not likely to
> cause me to miss too many backups.  What keychain does, though, is to
> cache the passphrase and make them available to cron and the like.   The
> key is on the remote host in knownhosts, and I can ssh from konsole into
> the server, but by default that puts me into my home directory.  I'm
> guessing that that needs to happen *before* luckybackup tries to connect
> to the /Data1/subdirectories.
> 
> They claim that it can do backup to and from remote directories, but I'm
> wondering if it only works with password-free connections.  Again, the
> manual claims that it works with other passphrase-caching tools, though. 
> I'm just not convinced that key-pairs without passphrase are a good idea.
> 
Logwatch tells me:
 Users logging in through sshd:
    anne:
       192.168.0.101: 16 times
 
 
 Received disconnect:
    11: disconnected by user : 16 Time(s)

Maybe it's not an authentication problem at all.  I'm utterly lost.

Anne
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