Domain Backup via SSH (feature update) [#25095]

Submitted by tpnsolutions on Sat, 01/26/2013 - 13:10

Hi,

While I was reading over a recent forum thread, it dawned on me that a feature could be added to the "SSH" backup option which seems to be missing.

== CURRENTLY ==

When you choose SSH as the backup destination, you need to specify "username" and "password".

== UPDATE SUGGESTION ==

In addition to conducting a username/password authentication, perhaps you could add the ability to authenticate by "public/private key".

*** this feature while not specific to backups is already available in Cloudmin, so I'm guessing it wouldn't be too difficult to add into Virtualmin ***

*** The feature would need to be added in both the GUI, and API respectively. ***

-Peter

Status:

Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 01/26/2013 - 19:02 Comment #1

You could set this up already - just make sure that the root user's public key is in the authorized_keys file on the destination system. That way the password can be left empty, as it won't be used..

Submitted by tpnsolutions on Sat, 01/26/2013 - 20:54 Comment #2

Jamie,

Excellent :-)

-Peter

Submitted by tpnsolutions on Sat, 01/26/2013 - 20:54 Comment #3