Guido Schmidt wrote:

> Dear backuppc-users,
> 
> I'm happily using BackupPC 3.1.0 for quite a while.
> 
> I'm now trying to backup a public host (host.example.com) via an
> ssh-redirected port. I don't allow any command execution on that host (and
> therefore cannot use the wait command), so I wrote a script
> (sshtunnelcontrol, see below) to open and close the tunnel when needed. It
> is called as DumpPreUserCmd and DumpPostUserCmd.
> 
> What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
> What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on
> host.example.com.
> 
> If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it
> with rsync as user backuppc on a shell providing the password by hand:
> 
>   rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backuppc@localhost::Alles
>   /home/backuppc/test/
> 
Do you provide the password during your script?
I don't know how BackupPC can know the password for the ssh connection.
I believe $Conf{RsyncdUserName} and $Conf{RsyncdPasswd} refers to the rsync
secrets and not to the ssh connection.

I would suggest to use public/private key for ssh.

br
Matthias
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