[K12OSN] rsync help

[Brian Chivers]

Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> On Friday November 11 2005 8:39 am, Brian Chivers wrote:
> 
>>Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
>>
>>>Good morning to all.
>>>
>>>I note at least some of you use rsync on a regular basis, and would
>>>appreciate your help.
>>>
>>>Some background info.:  both A and B run CentOS 3.5.  SSH and rsync are
>>>installed, and I created the user rsync, on both machines.
>>>
>>>I have a project in which I need to update files in a directory on server
>>>B with the originals on server A.  I have a script that accomplishes this
>>>using rsync, and it works very well.  However, I'm prompted for a
>>>password when connecting to server B.  As I want to cron the running of
>>>the script, I don't want to be prompted for the password.
>>>
>>>I've read how-to's on using rsync, and believe that I must create an
>>>rsync server on server B.  I guess that entails creating an rsyncd.conf
>>>file, then running rysnc as a daemon.  Prior to that, however, it looks
>>>like I need to create an rsa key pair on server A, then get the public
>>>key to server B. I've done this.  The how-to's go on to say that I should
>>>load the key into memory with the "ssh-add" command.  That doesn't work
>>>unless I use the "ssh-agent $SHELL" first.  I've done this, as well. 
>>>However, when I try to access server B with the "slogin" command, I'm
>>>still prompted for a password.
>>>
>>>I really need to set this up so that the script will run unattended. 
>>>Your help would be most appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Dimitri
>>
>>I've just done this for building a backup server.
>>
>>Try this link as a start
>>
>>http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/SSHwithoutPasswords
>>
>>& this one
>>
>>http://dsg.port.ac.uk/~rjb/misc/howto/ssh/index.php
>>
>>The second one makes more sense if you've read the first one first :-)
>>
>>Brian
>>
> 
> 
> I must be a complete moron, because even though I followed these latest 
> how-to's to the letter, I'm still prompted for a password.  What in the world 
> am I doing wrong?
> 
If memory servers me correctly I had to ssh into the the box from the other system once with a 
password then it sort of "kicked in"

This is sort of what I did, server a ssh to server b

server a logged in as root      ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 4096 (just hit enter for all the questions)
server a                        chmod 0644 ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub

copy ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from server a to server b into /root/.ssh if it's root that yoiur using for 
the ID

server b      in /root/.ssh/
		cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys


Sorry a little rough from notes

Brian

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