On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
<m3freak AT thesandhufamily DOT ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 13:00 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Do you have a passphrase for the key?   The only difference in your
>> scenarios I can think of is that something might be supplying the
>> passphrase on your behalf when you are logged in and giving the
>> command.   For the scheduled/web invocations you can't have a
>> passphrase.
>
> Yes, the key is protected by a pretty lengthy passphrase.  I'm using
> keychain to manage the ssh-agent process for caching the passphrase.
>
> Everything running under the BackupPC user (backuppc) has access to that
> ssh-agent process.  This is why I was thinking that when I try to do a
> manual backup from the web interface, access to backuppc's ssh-agent is
> denied.  Makes sense, right?


Not exactly.  The web interface just talks to the backuppc daemon over
a socket.    You'd  have to get the ssh-agent started and supply the
passphrase in the same login session that starts the the backuppc
daemon.   The normal init script probably disassociates from any other
sessions, though.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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