Centos 6.3 and Authentication failed

On 24.06.2013 20:01, R.Roberts wrote:
> New question #231300 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/231300
>
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> This is our first time installing and using Duplicity.
>
> Have users successfully installed on Centos 6.3?
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> In general, looks like we have a working installation but are ecountering autneticaion issues:
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> duplicity /disk2/myproj scp://user1:password@192.168.1.10/testdir/subversion
> BackendException: ssh connection to user1@192.168.1.10:22 failed: Authentication failed.
>
>>From a command the following works, so we don't know what else might be wrong.
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> # ssh user1@192.168.1.10
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>

which duplicity version? make sure you have the latest greatest 0.6.21.

are you asked for a password? do you use keyauth?

..ede/duply.net

I also have this exact problem. I am using the latest version of duplicity.
It did not prompt me for a password, but when I provide it it has the same authentication failed message.
I do not use keyauth.

Thanks for the help

what backend do you use? --ssh-backend=pexpect ? you might need --ssh-askpass then. also make sure that the remote machine is already added to your keyring .ssh/known_hosts file.

better? ..ede

Yes, I am using scp
Yes, the remote machine is in the .ssh/known_hosts file
I installed openssh-askpass and tried it again. But it gave me the same result.

On 26.06.2013 19:16, Tim Chi wrote:
> Question #231300 on Duplicity changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/231300
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> Tim Chi requested more information:
> Yes, I am using scp
> Yes, the remote machine is in the .ssh/known_hosts file
> I installed openssh-askpass and tried it again. But it gave me the same result.
>

--ssh-askpass is a duplicity parameter. see manpage
 http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html

additionally you might wanna try --ssh-backend=pexpect (also see manpage).

..ede

Oh ok. So I tried this command:

duplicity /source scp://<email address hidden>/destination --ssh-backend=pexpect --ssh-askpass
Password for <email address hidden>: .....

result:
failed (attempt #1): Permission denied
Running 'sftp -oServerAliveInterval=15 -oServerAliveCountMax=2 <email address hidden>' with commands:
mkdir "testdir"
cd "testdir"
mkdir "subversion"
cd "subversion"
ls -1

It would make 5 attempts and the same result would show up.

I double checked that my ~/.ssh/known_hosts file has the machine there.

well it says
 "Permission denied"

is the user allowed to write at the destination? try manually via sftp client.

..ede/duply.net

Awesome! I got it to work! Thanks for all the help!