I am trying to follow the instructions at http://www.howtoforge.com/mirroring_with_rsync i get to step #5 and then it is not the same as the instructions. Now log in through SSH on server1.example.com as someuser (not root!) and do this: server1: (Please do this as someuser!) mkdir ~/.ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh mv ~/mirror-rsync-key.pub ~/.ssh/ cd ~/.ssh touch authorized_keys chmod 600 authorized_keys cat mirror-rsync-key.pub >> authorized_keys this is ok, but the next step: /home/someuser/.ssh/authorized_keys should look similar to this: server1: (Still as someuser!) vi /home/someuser/.ssh/authorized_keys ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAA[...]lSUom root@ mirror mine has 8 lines of code starting with ssh-dss and ending with the server it was created on. is this ok? *** *** next step is: Now we want to allow connections only from mirror.example.com, and the connecting user should be allowed to use only rsync, so we add command="/home/someuser/rsync/checkrsync",from="mirror.example.com",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty so in that file /home/someuser/.ssh/authorized_keys i need to add the above on its own line?? with one return ?? to look like: command="/home/someuser/rsync/checkrsync",from="server1.knightdog.biz",no-port-forwarding,no-x11-forwarding,no-pty ssh-dss AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA then the next step says to do: server1: (Still as someuser!) vi /home/someuser/.ssh/authorized_keys command="/home/someuser/rsync/checkrsync",from="mirror.example.com",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty ssh-dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAA[...]lSUom root@ mirror so do i put that infront of the first or after the first line and before the ssh-dss Thank you for taking the time to read this post and post a reply to help me. Knightdog
