Rdiff-Backup- can't login as a rdiff-backup user

hi there,
i got the problem when try to login as a rdiff-backup user

Code:

[root@backup /]# su -m rdiff-backup
bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
bash-3.00$

here my ls -la /backup output

Code:

[root@backup /]# ls -la /backup/
total 36
drwx------   3 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup 4096 Jun  6 14:52 .
drwxr-xr-x  24 root         root         4096 Jun  6 14:30 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup  304 Jun  7 08:53 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--   1 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup  191 Jun  7 08:53 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--   1 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup  124 Jun  7 08:53 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--   1 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup  383 Jun  7 08:53 .emacs
-rw-r--r--   1 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup  120 Jun  7 08:53 .gtkrc
drwx------   2 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup 4096 Jun  7 08:04 .ssh

and here my grep rdiff-backup /etc/passwd output

Code:

[root@backup /]# grep rdiff-backup /etc/passwd
rdiff-backup:x:3500:3500:rdiff-backup:/backup:/bin/false

does anyone got the same error?

 

The su seems to work, you can check with

Code:

whoami

after the su.
For some reason the rdiff-backup user tries to read /root/.bashrc which it isn't allowed to do. I don't know why the user tries to read that file. Anyway, if the rest is working, then I wouldn't worry about it.

 

thanks falko

Code:

bash-3.00$ whoami
rdiff-backup

i can follow the rest of the tutorial , but when i ...

Code:

bash-3.00$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]
bash: ssh-copy-id: command not found

i've check some of the threads about rdiff-backup but never seem they have the problem like mine.

 

Please run (as root)

Code:

updatedb
locate ssh-copy-id

What's the output?

 

thanks falko for reply and sorry for long delay. here mine

Code:

[root@backup ~]# updatedb
[root@backup ~]# locate ssh-copy-id
[root@backup ~]#

and here my ssh packages

Code:

[root@backup ~]# rpm -qa|grep ssh
openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12
openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12
openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12
openssh-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12
openssh-askpass-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12

its seem like i have no ssh-copy-id in my machine, so where/how to download/install it?

 

I see you use RedHat. You can try

Code:

yum search ssh-copy-id

 

thanks for the help.

no, i'm using CentOS but everything inside is RHEL.

Code:

[root@backup pub]# yum search ssh-copy-id
Searching Packages:
Setting up repositories
update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
No Matches found
[root@backup pub]# yum install ssh-copy-id
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: ssh-copy-id
Nothing to do

i'm searching and googling alot to solve this problem but so far i can't find the solution. hope anyone can me to solve this problem

 

What's the result of

Code:

yum provides ssh-copy-id

?

 

here the result

Code:

[root@backup ~]# yum provides ssh-copy-id
Searching Packages:
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Importing Additional filelist information for packages
filelists.xml.gz          100% |=========================| 146 kB    00:16
extras    : ################################################## 204/204
Added 204 new packages, deleted 0 old in 4.98 seconds


man-pages-fr.noarch                      0.9.7-11               base
Matched from:
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/ssh-copy-id.1.gz

what this mean?

 

This means that the program ssh-copy-id is in the package man-pages-fr (but this seems odd to me... ).

 

so what i need to do now, untill now i can't follow the tutorial because of this problem. anyone out there facing the same problem like mine?

 

Have a look here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88707

 

hi !
i am facing the same problem like u did. I saw your posts but there is no solution in that. I am also using CentOs . kindly tell me wat u did to solve this problem.
bash-3.00$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]
bash: ssh-copy-id: command not found
Regards.