If you're being prompted for a password, then the public key is being
ignored for some reason. This could be due to permissions. The .ssh
directory should have 700 permissions (chmod 700 .ssh). Some distros
are picky about the permissions of the individual files in .ssh. Just
to be safe, give every file in .ssh 600 permissions (chmod 600 .ssh/*)
-Rob
Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I have answered yes to the prompt to accept the key and immediately get
> asked for a password. I have tried entering the password thinking that it
> might be 'just this once', but when I rerun the command, I am prompted for
> the password again. When I set this up before, this test ran without a
> hitch, and I simply got a response of 'root' to the whoami command. -- ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:les AT futuresource DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:38 PM
> To: General list for user discussion,questions and support
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] I broke perfection ...
>
> Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
>> The problem is that when all is working properly, and I run the command
>> -bash-3.2$ ssh -l root Winserver whoami
>> (bash-3.2$ prompt since user 'backuppc' was setup on Fedora 8 'no-logon')
>> WinServer should not ask for a password or pass-phrase, but only respond
>> 'root'
>
> Did you ever answer 'yes' at the point where your earlier message showed
> a ^C instead? You do have to answer yes to that once (and only once).
> Then if it goes on to ask for a password your keys aren't set up right.
>
>> The process is not generating password/phrase-less keys!
>
> This is determined by how you respond during the keygen step for the
> backuppc user. If you just hit enter at the prompt for a passphrase you
> won't have one. After that you just have to get the pub part of the key
> into the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file on the target with permissions
> set correctly.
>
>> It did on the original setup back in October before the crash. I am
>> wondering if some file or program update issued in the last month or so
> may
>> be affecting the way the system is working now.
>
> An update would affect everyone. It hasn't.
>
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