On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 10:09 +0100, François Patte wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 02/01/2011 02:14, Matthew Saltzman a crit : > > I'm trying to set up amanda using the amaddclient command. That > > requires that user amandabackup be able to log into the client machine > > using ssh keys. > > > > I've generated the keys on the server machine, copied the public key to > > the client machine in /var/lib/amanda/.ssh/authorized_keys > > (/var/lib/amanda is amandabackup's home directory). I believe all file > > protections are set correctly--they mirror the ones for a regular user. > > But ssh fails to use the keys and prompts for a password. > > Did you give some permission to selinux? No, that turned out to be the problem. (Didn't see the violation in setroubleshoot because I was doing things remotely.) I think it's a bug: amandabackup is a normal user with home directory /var/lib/amanda/. Logging in via ssh should "Just Work (tm)". > > - -- > Franois Patte > UFR de mathmatiques et informatique > Universit Paris Descartes > 45, rue des Saints Pres > F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 > Tl. +33 (0)1 4286 2145 > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk0gQNIACgkQdE6C2dhV2JWoXgCaA0qp1ObJDme7QXRTy0FxyaHJ > AkUAnjQWDDCjiJ9LbkOBv7sfJwuJNO61 > =/0fS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines