• Registered: 2010-10-01
  • Posts: 7

Topic: SSH setup failure

Hello,
Whe whant to use cpremote on our servers to arange backup.
I am unable to get SSH authentication to work so cpremote can login..

please help .. i followed the instructions, but when i try too login to the backup server it still ask's for password..

steps taken:
login to cpanel server (putty root)
install cpremote
configure cpremote

copy public_key
from putty session log in to the remote backup server root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
pwd = /root
mkdir .ssh
touch .ssh/autorized_keys
chmod 750 .ssh/
chmod 600 .ssh/autorized_keys

nano .ssh/autorized_keys
past key and remove the spaces / next line's exept the space between ssh-rsa and rest of key
save
exit

(back on the cpanel server)

then when i try to connect to the backupserver from console
ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

it stil asks for password
also when i run script /scripts/cpremotebackup it wil ask for a password everytime

  • Registered: 2009-07-28
  • Posts: 335

Re: SSH setup failure

Can you check the log file /var/log/secure in your ssh server

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  • Registered: 2010-10-01
  • Posts: 7

Re: SSH setup failure

i have checked on the destination storage server i see in the var/log/secure:

May 13 01:40:59 backup sshd[4439]: error: key_read: uudecode AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA3NZOV4aWN0jeMBnzHlF+4l8hc/zbTucPX5mLU2oSBRb6/YoT0iBxnK4k11kBAI+ZrgOThI3bGc3dCTzI+Tf4VACd8wCJB0IDO2MyjeEJ1UhUxjcgFvKz+6DjYGxchLODc/WmD24g2cFqU03h2wyfJ8qW7kjyhb3qVa64la5LPc4VPGb3Z6kYQYAKSlqT9Fyp0/RPh67QyIcAfGJ7FCCk/i+/RpHwExkUxD0DkFVY2jBxP1vVBAyrflk1C6GfsvObWvXznqJ5jC72pEcTpi24lnUwl1xwNqSdtfMTb2ZgzzaiyH27/x/6hmlbjasZbNCpsfxJIaaPaTg9fmiR98t+tw==root@sourceservername\n failed
May 13 01:40:59 backup sshd[4439]: Failed password for root from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 51042 ssh2

  • Registered: 2009-07-28
  • Posts: 335

Re: SSH setup failure

seems some unique issue

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