Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup

From	AC <debusersQ743@acarver.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup
Date	2022-05-09 05:30 +0200
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On 2022-05-08 18:27, AC wrote:
> On 2022-05-08 18:03, David wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 10:53, AC <debusersQ743@acarver.net> wrote:
>>> On 2022-05-08 16:45, David wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:24, AC <debusersQ743@acarver.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Now here's a new discovery on the machines having problems: as a normal
>>> user I can rsync just fine to a remote machine.  But if I'm using rsync
>>> as root to send a backup to a remote machine, I get the rdiff-backup
>>> problem.  The other machines have no issues whether I'm a regular user
>>> or root.
>>
>> Ok. In that case, I would run again the check commands I gave, but this
>> time as root, just to see if there is any difference.
>>
>> I don't know the cause of your problem, but these commands are useful
>> investigation to reveal what "rsync" means when the particular user runs
>> that command.
> 
> All of my tests were done as root already.  They all matched.
> 

well I feel stupid but the problem ended up on the server side of this 
mess.  I had actually written command restrictions into the 
authorized_keys file on the server so that the unattended backups would 
use SSH keys that couldn't be used for anything else.  I did this ages 
ago and completely forgot about it.  The two machines that worked are 
brand new so they didn't have the keys set up and I was manually 
entering passwords when prompted just for testing.

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rsync trying to load rdiff-backup AC <debusersQ743@acarver.net> - 2022-05-08 23:30 +0200
  Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 01:50 +0200
    Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup AC <debusersQ743@acarver.net> - 2022-05-09 03:00 +0200
      Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 03:10 +0200
        Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup AC <debusersQ743@acarver.net> - 2022-05-09 03:30 +0200
          Re: rsync trying to load rdiff-backup AC <debusersQ743@acarver.net> - 2022-05-09 05:30 +0200

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