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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to use ssh-agent on a server without X?

2010-03-17 11:36:25
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to use ssh-agent on a server without X?
From: Luis Paulo <luis.barbas AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:29:36 +0000
It seems ssh-agent alone don't do the job because it is not possible to keep env vars SSH_AGENT_PID and SSH_AUTH_SOCK between sessions

keychain do a good job setting ssh-agent for the user, using ,bash_profile and keeping the env vars on a file in ~/.keychain/

I was trying to set this on rc.local (with S99rc.local on ubuntu). Maybe it is possible to set keychain there, but for now I just use rc.local to log as backuppc user. Boot stops, asks for the passphrase (but not the user password?). Then I run exit to continue boot.

Not very elegant :)

And the first ssh as backuppc user I do seems to hang or take too long to connect. After that, it works fine.


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Luis Paulo <luis.barbas AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
I now use ssh with phraseless keys to do my backups on a server without X.

As I remember, when I had backuppc server on a machine with X, it was quite easy to make the gnome-agent send the key. The only thing was the need to insert a key on boot, what could be a problem on a power event.

I have tryed, but I never was able to do that with ssh-agent.

I'll tell you exactly what I am doing in following posts, but can anyone give some help for starters?

Thanks
Luis

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