Afternoon,

I'm not having much luck with cwrsync on windows and my linux ubuntu box.

Im following the quide at http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows_rsync.html

Which all seems fine, however when I get to the Uploading keys im having a problem.

My local ubuntu box is on 192.168.55.250. I've tried a few things now to upload the key. The method mentioned in the link above just won't connect.

So I've copied the key to the .ssh directory and done the following as root on my linux server (I copies het key accross via samba):

more ~/.ssh/newkey >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
rm ~/.ssh/newkey

Now is that right? Is that the best way of manually importing keys?

I still then have the problem of now being able to connect via rsync and cwrsync with ssh. THis is my rsync script

rsync -e "ssh -i /cydrive/c/Documents and Settings/jon/.ssh/id_rsa" "/cygdrive/c/PHP" jon@192.168.55.250:backup

and

rsync -av "/cygdrive/c/PHP" jon@192.168.555.250:backup

Both of these scripts bring up a password prompt.

Any help would be much appreciated and I'm rather confused.

I can get a linux - linux box working so problem, it just seems to be cwrsync and windows.

TIA.

Jon

This may not be correct. The ssh daemon is going to look for ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, so by adding that 2 on the end of it, you may be causing a problem. In general, an authorized_keys file can hold any number of keys, you just have to add them with a text editor or via a cat. First, make a backup of authorized_keys just in case, and then:

cat newkey authorized_keys_backup > authorized_keys

You then need to make sure that each key is on exactly one line in the text file. Not all Windows programs create keys on a single line (Putty is a prime example).

Hi,

Thanks for that. Ill try that out and report back.

Jon

EDIT: I tried that the cat alterations. I only have one key per line.

Am I adding the key in right? Coping it to the server then doing the above?

Yeah, copying the key to the server and then adding it to the authorized_keys file is the way to do it.

I would have a look in your log file (/var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages) on the server to see if sshd is complaining about anything when you try to connect from Windows.

A good idea. I'll take a look at the logs.

Its more of a windows problem than anything though.

Cheers

Jon