[CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

Tue Jun 16 21:14:09 UTC 2009
Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 17:10, Filipe Brandenburger<filbranden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 16:59, Stewart Williams<lists at pinkyboots.co.uk> wrote:
>> command="rsync -avz -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key" /backup
>> stewart at name.of.remote.server:/backup" ssh-dss ... key ...
>
> You actually have to include the command that rsync will call on the
> server side, not the command you use to call rsync on the client
> side...

If you add "-v" to the SSH command line on the client:

$ rsync -avz -e "ssh -v -i ..."

It will print something like this:

debug1: Sending command: rsync --server -vlogDtprze.is . /backup

That is the exact string you should add to command="" on the
authorized_keys file on the other end.

HTH,
Filipe