Hi,

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:50:18AM +0200, romain.pichard AT valeo DOT com wrote:

> I would like to know if it's possible to use BackupPC over SSH with
> public/private key with a passphrase (and add this passphrase to the line
> command of BackupPC) ?

You gain absolutely nothing by assigning a passphrase to the key and
then having the passphrase on the command line. If anybody get's your
private key (and therefore is on your BackupPC server already), he/she
will be able to retrieve the passphrase as well - especially since the
ssh command line is visible for the whole duration of the backup.

> I read a tutorial without passphrase but I don't now if it's possible with
> it.
> 
> If it's possible, can you explain me how do that ?

You could use ssh-agent to protect the private key and run it manually
as the backuppc user - I've done that for my home backup to an external
USB drive. Everything is stored on the drive, including the private key
which gains root access to several systems. So I passphrase-protected it
and you need to run ssh-agent before backuppc and enter the passphrase
manually.

Bye,

Tino.

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