I always forget 'sudo su'. Thanks. Just tested this on debian12 - the shell needs to be temporarily changed from nologin to bash first....
sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/bash weewx # temporarily change the shell to a valid one sudo su weewx # now this will work (do anything requiring running as user weewx) sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/nologin weewx # reverse the temporary change On debian12 it was 'not' necessary to set a weewx password. On Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 4:18:01 AM UTC-7 matthew wall wrote: > you can become the weewx user without entering a password: > > sudo su weewx > > or you can set a password for the weewx account: > > sudo passwd weewx > > > > On May 21, 2025, at 01:09, James Barber <jbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thank you so much for a quick reply. I have tried logging in ..... su > weewx..... and it asks for a password. This weewx user was created by the > apt install so I don't know the password and "weewx" ain't it hah. I > searched for the password to no avail :(. I could try making a new user > weewx and set my own password ? > > -- > > James Barber, MD > > Douglas, GA > > Cell: (912) 292-4064 > > > > > > On May 21, 2025 12:00:15 AM EDT, 'John Kline' via weewx-user < > weewx...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Steps 6 and 7 need to be performed as user weewx. > > The test in step 8 should be performed as user weewx. > > > > I believe you are correct that this would have just worked had you > upgraded from 4.1; but I believe you would be running as root, not pi. > > > >> On May 20, 2025, at 8:46 PM, James B <jbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I ran RSYNC with 4.10 with no problems. I've read and re-read the > RSYNC docs for 4.10, 5.0, and 5.1 > >> No success so I really appreciate any help. Ironically it looks like > from the 5.0 documentation, if I had upgraded > >> from 4.10 rather than a clean 5.1 install, the installer would have > kept my user "pi" and not "weewx", and i think i wouldn't > >> have these problems. I think my problem is the daemon user is "weewx" > and I can't set up permissions for ssh with "weewx". > >> > >> What I've done so far: > >> ___________________________________________________ > >> 1. made fresh SD card with bookworm > >> 2. logged in as user "pi" > >> 3. fresh weewx install using apt install > >> 4. set up weewx.conf: > >> [[RSYNC]] > >> enable = true > >> server = ZZZ.1and1-data.host > >> user = XXX > >> path = YYY/ > >> 5. ps aux | grep "weewx" (shows user weewx running weewxd) > >> weewx 6460 1.9 8.8 364336 81720 ? Ssl 12:46 10:30 python3 > /usr/share/weewx/weewxd.py /etc/weewx/weewx.conf > >> 6. ssh-keygen > >> 7. ssh-copy-id x...@zzz.1and1-data.host > >> 8. ssh'd to remote_server (success) > >> 9. rsync'd test files to remote_server (success) > >> 10. cp ~/.ssh/*.* /var/lib/weewx/.ssh > >> 11. sudo chown weewx:weewx /var/lib/weewx/.ssh/*.* > >> -rwxrwx--- 1 weewx weewx 560 May 20 12:23 id_rsa.pub > >> -rw------- 1 weewx weewx 364 May 19 22:18 known_hosts > >> -rwxrwx--- 1 weewx weewx 142 May 20 12:23 known_hosts.old > >> 12. weectl report run RSYNC (WORKS from user pi without error YAY) > >> 13. running weewx via systemd, NO JOY. Here's the error message: > >> weewxd[6460]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: rsync reported errors. > Original command: ['rsync', '--archive', '--stats', '-e', 'ssh', > '/var/www/html/weewx/', 'x...@zzz.1and1-data.host:YYY'] > >> weewxd[6460]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** Permission denied, please > try again. > >> weewxd[6460]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** Permission denied, please > try again. > >> weewxd[6460]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** x...@zzz.1and1-data.host: > Permission denied (publickey,password). > >> weewxd[6460]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** rsync: connection > unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] > >> weewxd[6460]: ERROR weeutil.rsyncupload: **** rsync error: unexplained > error (code 255) at io.c(232) [sender=3.2.7] > >> > >> From reading the above posts, and looking everywhere i can, i am pretty > sure i haven't set up the weewx ssh key properly. > >> I can't find a config or .config file in my ~/.ssh directory, but rsync > works as user pi, so that doesn't seem to be the problem. > >> > >> How do I set up ssh for the weewx user? I copied my pi ssh files as > instructed above (and as mentioned by vince) but that didn't work. > >> Thank you so much for any help. > >> > >> On Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 11:39:00 AM UTC-4 vince wrote: > >> Agree. My error there. I keep forgetting the weewx accounts $HOME for > packaged installs is in an odd location. Thanks ! > >> > >> On Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 6:07:15 AM UTC-7 PBudmark wrote: > >> As correctly stated in > https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-user/c/50VCTyL-Tpw/m/DgScCzIDAQAJ, the > home directory for weewx is /var/lib/weewx and not /home/weewx, so .ssh > need to go into /var/lib/weewx/.ssh > >> > >> On Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 4:32:07 AM UTC+1 Ben W. wrote: > >> Thanks, Vince! > >> I'm pretty sure I saw that link in my results, but the Ubuntu reference > resulted in my continue scrolling. I will try your suggestion when I get > back home! > >> > >> On Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 7:59:44 PM UTC-5 vince wrote: > >> If you google your exact error "Host key verification failed." and it > will return what's going on.... > >> > >> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/45679/ssh-connection-problem-with-host-key-verification-failed-error > >> > >> The weewx-related answer is that you're using old notes that are still > expecting the 'root' user on the weewx system to be the local user, which > is no longer accurate. In v5 it is the 'weewx' user (upgrade guide link). > So it is very likely the host key of the remote computer is not known in > the /home/weewx/.ssh/known_hosts file. Simplest way around this would be do > append whatever is in your legacy /root/.ssh/known_hosts file to your > /home/weewx/.ssh/known_hosts file. > >> > >> On Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 5:34:36 PM UTC-7 Ben W. wrote: > >> Greetings! > >> :: > >> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "weewx-user" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d910463d-ab6a-4158-84fc-5edc1bb6e5e2n%40googlegroups.com > . > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "weewx-user" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3BC3255B-0B08-4533-B3F3-A3CA86463758%40gmail.com > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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