One thing that I just thought of that may or may not be significant:

  The two machines are in different buildings about 100 yards apart.  I
didn't run back and forth between them, but rather, ssh connected to
WinServer from Archiver in one terminal session and used another terminal
session to do the work on Archiver.

  It my understanding that the CPU doesn't really know the exact source of
the commands it receives (keyboard, script file, network, etc).  While that
may be generally true, it may have an impact on the process of creating
keys.  -- ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de] 
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:36 AM
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] I broke perfection ...

> Since the testing, I've moved on to another issue that was brought to my
> attention during the work to get BackupPC working:  Fedora was probably
not
> the best distribution of Linux to run a server function.  While working
with
> other distro's, I goofed and trashed my perfectly running system.  I have
> rebuilt it up to the point of installing my ssh-keys for rsync.  In as far
> as I know, I'm doing the same thing as before when it worked out just
fine.
> This time, it all looks good during the setup, but 'backuppc' user is not
> getting 'root' authority when tested.  I've tried several times,
> consistently getting the same result.  I am hoping that someone will see
> where this somewhat less of a newbie is messing up.  All comments are
> welcome.  -- ken

[...]

(I didn't think through everything you wrote...)

> -bash-3.2$ ssh -l root WinServer whoami
> 
> The authenticity of host 'WinServer (192.168.1.101)' can't be established.
> 
> RSA key fingerprint is 57:e6: . :7a:c6.   <== Should this be the same as
> when created in step one?

This should be the fingerprint of your WinServer's _host_ key. As far as
I can see, you did not create that one. SSH has basically two kinds of
keys:
1. host key
2. (optional) user key

A host key should never change. The public key part of the host key is
stored in known_hosts to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks.

> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? ^C  <<<=== ABORTED
> DUE TO FAILURE

HTH,

Tino.



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