Rsync connection to remote server

[Dun Mac]

Hi, 

I have established a direct connection to a web server (GreenGeeks) with the SSH keys added to the remote server. I can log on to the remote server via 

"ssh user...@170.x.xxx.xx" and it logs on with no passwords. 

When I set weewx.conf,  Rsync to true I get the following error message in syslog;

Apr 14 12:00:36 RPi-weather weewx[29143] DEBUG weewx.reportengine: Running report 'RSYNC'

Apr 14 12:00:36 RPi-weather weewx[29143] DEBUG weewx.reportengine: Found configuration file /etc/weewx/skins/Rsync/skin.conf for report 'RSYNC'

Apr 14 12:00:36 RPi-weather weewx[29143] DEBUG weeutil.rsyncupload: rsyncupload: cmd: [['rsync', '--archive', '--stats', '-e ssh', '/var/www/html/weewx/', 'xxx...@107.x.xxx.xx:/home//weewx/wx_standard_report']]

Apr 14 12:00:39 RPi-weather weewx[29143] ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: [['rsync', '--archive', '--stats', '-e ssh', '/var/www/html/weewx/', 'xxx...@107.x.1xxx.xx:Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password).. rsync: connection unexpectedly closexxxd (0 bytes received so far) [sender]. rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) /home/xxxxxxx/weewx/wx_standard_report']] reported errors: xxx...@107.x.xx.xx: at io.c(235) [sender=3.1.3]

Apr 14 12:00:39 RPi-weather weewx[29143] INFO weeutil.rsyncupload: rsync executed in 2.62 seconds

Would someone be kind enough to post their ~/.ssh/config and their /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config files so I can see if I have an error in one of these files with my setup, please. Any other feedback would also be very welcome.

Duncan

[Dun Mac]

According to the web server the public keys were accepted by the server. They have sent a copy of their logs;

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Apr 14 03:24:57 ams102 sshd[2890665]: Accepted publickey for offgrid1 from 49.xxx.xxx.xx port 34506 ssh2: RSA SHA256:oMhJCSYLqpgYZ6mYwxcQvedv+hycs5kTOTLfVKhtPRzmGStXdRaHU
Apr 14 03:24:57 ams102 sshd[2890665]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user oxxxxx1
Apr 14 03:26:42 ams102 sshd[2890665]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user oxxxxx1

[tomn...@frontier.com]

Are you testing as your own userID, but weewx is running as root?  From the command line you can add -v or -vv to your ssh command to get a TON of details about the

ssh connection.  Read it slowly and carefully.  Also, you can try the rsync by hand as well.  No point trying to debug it within weewx.

[vince]

This is rsync 101.    You need the account you are running weewx under (root) to have a ~/.ssh/config file that tells it which key to use to connect to the remote system, as well as which account to use on the remote side.

Host my.remote.host.com

  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_private_key

  user my_remote_username

If you do that, then as root you should be able to rsync to my.remote.host.com and it will log in there as my_remote_username

[Dun Mac]

This is my ~/.ssh/config file;

Host 107.xxx.xxx.xxx

IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

User oxxxx1

When my /etc/ssh/ssh_config file has;

PasswordAuthentication no

the Rsync fails .. Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password)..

When my /etc/ssh/ssh_config file has;

#PasswordAuthentication no

the rsync (running wee_reports) requests a password and then the transfer proceeds correctly

[vince]

You should not alter your system-wide /etc/ssh/ssh_config at all and you should never get prompted for a password if you have it set up correctly.

That stanza needs to be in root's ssh config file, which likely is /root/.ssh/config on a pi.   Your weewx.conf file needs to use the same 'server = x.x.x.x' setting that the 'host' entry of root's ssh config file uses.

[Dun Mac]

Thank you, Vince (once again). I had used my standard login to create the config file and had not created it as the root user. It is now working.