Problems getting rsync over SSH without password

[Kevin Kempter]

On Wednesday 21 October 2009 10:08:56 Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have two old servers with one mirroring the other using RSYNC over
> SSH. I did this some time ago.
> 
> Now coming to replace these servers with two new F11 ones I cannot
> seem to get the it to work without supplying passwords.
> 
> I followed my instructions I wrote at the time for RSYNC over SSH, but
> it still asks for a password even though AFAICS I have set up the
> certificates correctly.
> 
> Any help or suggestions welcome,
> 
> Aaron
> 

some distros want the public key in an 'authorized_keys2' file. Also the whole 
thing wont work unless your perm are correct on the target server:


the .ssh directory should be 0600 and I think the .ssh/authorized_keys & 
authorized_keys2 files should be 640