Problems getting rsync over SSH without password

[Aaron Gray]

2009/10/21 Kevin Kempter <kevink at consistentstate.com>:
> 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

I have no authorized_keys2, mods seem okay though.

Aaron