Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity + SSH - SFTP

[edgar . soldin]

On 28.06.2011 00:43, eleanor wrote:
> I'm using gentoo linux and I've installed duplicity-0.6.13 and yes
> I've got that option, but the problem is that even now it doesn't use
> only scp. I've been reading about that, and the manpage says that it
> uses both scp and sftp so it's pretty much of no use.

scp does in no way enable a listing of files which is needed for a proper 
backend operation.

> 
> For now I setup some accounts with sftp only, until there's a better
> alternative.
> 
> I'm sure there's a way to let users login normally via ssh and use
> sftp too (well I've got some basic commands in sftp mode also, so that
> will have to do for now) - but I'm sure this should be possible.
> 
> If anybody knows a way to make this possible, let me know please.
> 


what you are asking is basic system administrator work. find some howto telling 
how to setup openssh properly.

if you are unable to ssh to your system but sshd is running you should verify 
that your user has a valid shell set in /etc/passwd.

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