So I've taken the plunge and installed Rsnapshot to my Gentoo desktop. I'm trying to back it up to my server over ssh. I've tested just using rsync with a single file and that worked flawlessly. I'm using Rsnapshot 1.4.1. My problem... I'm having trouble with the ssh login. debug3: hostkeys_foreach: reading file "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" debug3: record_hostkey: found key type ED25519 in file /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug3: load_hostkeys: loaded 1 keys from 192.168.1.129 debug1: Host '192.168.1.129' is known and matches the ED25519 host key. debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug2: key: /root/.ssh/authorized_keys (0x5586fc167bc0), explicit debug2: key: /root/.ssh/rsync-key (0x5586fc174510), debug3: input_userauth_banner ####################################################################### # Welcome to BBOX [ at ] Faintfuzzies [ dot ] ca # # All connections are monitored and recorded # # Disconnect IMMEDIATELY if you are not an authorized user! # ####################################################################### debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering ED25519 public key: /root/.ssh/authorized_keys debug3: send_pubkey_test debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Offering ED25519 public key: /root/.ssh/rsync-key debug3: send_pubkey_test debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method debug1: No more authentication methods to try. Permission denied (publickey). faintfuzzies ~ # I've checked and rechecked all my permissions on .ssh/ and its contents. directory is 700 and the files are 600. As a side not I've go the exact same setup work in the reverse direction on these two computers and it works fine. I'm stumped. ===== Bruce