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<H1>[Mageia-dev] SSH PAM configuration</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Tue Aug 14 11:01:52 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 13/08/12 18:06 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On 13/08/12 11:04, Olav Vitters wrote:
</I>>><i> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:39:07AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
</I>>>><i> Why would anyone need root login over ssh? I don't allow it on
</I>>>><i> my server and it has never caused me any problems. Su to root
</I>>>><i> works perfectly well and avoids the security risk, so I don't
</I>>>><i> understand this thread.
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Remote backups. Quite easy to setup an SSH key which only runs
</I>>><i> rsync.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I use rsync on the server for local backups, and I use SSH with keys
</I>><i> to access the server from laptops for maintenance tasks, but I have
</I>><i> never managed to make rsync over ssh with keys work. People tell me
</I>><i> to just use ssh without keys, but I'm reluctant to do that. Maybe one
</I>><i> day I'll find something that steps me through it, so that I can find
</I>><i> the missing link.
</I>
In this case if you want a special key that can *only* run rsync you
need to configure your authorized_keys correctly with appropriate
command= definition.
But even without specific setup if you can ssh between hosts happily,
just do "rsync -e ssh" on the client side and just use
<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">foo at remote</A>:/path/to/files syntax. Job done :)
Col
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