On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:59:27 +0100 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 ... well, I've never seen anything other than keys in an authorized_keys file.. (btw - use authorized_keys2 for ssh v2), but I'd hazard a guess and say that the speech marks are what could be causing it grief. try single quotes (') around the command= bit with the double quotes around the ssh command and see if that makes a difference. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090617/1bf52112/attachment-0005.sig>