On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Przemek Klosowski wrote:

> that looks good, so it must be something else.  The .ssh directory itself
> has to be drwx------ (ls -ld /root/.ssh, or wherever your root's .ssh is)

Przemek,

Those are the perms.

> BTW the 'remote' system is the localhost, which you're ssh-ing to.

Ah, okay. I thought it was the target backup drive

> So look at the sshd daemon messages on your local system. if your system
> uses systemd, you may need to use journalct I think and/or run sshd with
> verbose error logging. Sorry for being vague, I don't remember the details
> and I can' check them right now.

I run Slackware-14.2/x86_64 (most recent stable version). There are no
sshd-related messages in /var/log/secure.

It's quite frustrating as dirvish has worked for almost 20 years on the
older desktops without this issue arising.

Thanks,

Rich
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