RSync backup issue

[Chris O'Connell]

I should have said, this is an Ubuntu box.  Given that, where would I copy
the ssh key to?

Chris

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Matthew Gillen <me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 11/12/2009 03:14 PM, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> > HI Everyone,
> >
> > I hate to post this in here, but I've been working on this for some time
> > without a resolution.  My problem is that when this program is executed
> by
> > the super user, I'm always prompted for a password when the RSYNC
> connection
> > is trying to be made.  If I execute as non super user (ADMINISTRATOR),
> the
> > archive is not created.
>
> It looks like you've got ADMINISTRATOR set up with public-key auth.  The
> easiest thing would be to copy ADMINISTRATOR's .ssh/id*  (ie the key files)
> to
> root's $HOME/.ssh/.  That way root is using an authorized ssh key that
> administrator-Q0ErXNX1RuYmaKRe3I/nfg at public.gmane.org already has configured to allow.
>
> Although I may have mis-read what the problem is...
>
> HTH,
> Matt
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