BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error: unable to read 4 bytes

2008-06-30 11:21:11
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error: unable to read 4 bytes
From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT nl>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:20:58 +0200
Leandro Tracchia wrote:

> i CAN ssh into the client with the backuppc user from the backuppc
> server. to log into the client i need to supply the root password. how
> does backuppc know what the root password is to log in??? i never
> specified the root password in config.pl. is this something rsync
> takes care of???

Standard procedure is to use public key authentication (without a  
passphrase) instead of password authentication. See the docs: 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html

Nils Breunese.

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