In your working example you are connecting as root but in your dsync example your user is remoteprefix:root. Try removing the "remoteprefix:" which is being treated as part of the user name.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Kent Borg via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2025 3:34 PM > To: cdm...@yahoo.com; 'Kent Borg' <kentborg-dove...@borg.org>; > dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: Re: newbie dsync problems > > On 1/23/25 12:26 PM, cdm...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Kent, > > > > You are being prompted for a password, so it isn't using private key > authentication. I recommend you get ssh working first, prove you are indeed > connecting to your secondary server, and only then introduce doveadm. > > Yes, I checked that: > > > I think I have root's ssh keys set up correctly, I can run this: > > > >> root@la:/etc/dovecot# ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa_rc.borg.org.dsync > >> mail.borg.org > >> PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 > >> C-c C-croot@la:/etc/dovecot# > > …and on the remote end I see some debugging output I put in the remote > > script, outputting an empty username. Makes sense. > > > > Is mail.borg.org the name of your "matching server" or is that the name of > your primary server? > > mail.borg.org is the name of the (priority 10) backup, I am running this > on my (priority 1) primary server, mail2.borg.org, I am pretty certain I > am not ssh-ing to myself. > > > kb > > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org