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Question #96168 on NSsbackup changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/96168

Anton posted a new comment:
Oumar Aziz OUATTARA wrote:
> Question #96168 on NSsbackup changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/96168
> 
> Oumar Aziz OUATTARA proposed the following answer:
>>> Regarding your question, the problem comes from the fact that the SSH URL in NSsbackup is not using the same format as in Sbackup.
>>> In NSsbackup, the definition of the schemas is delegated to each plugin.
>>> The schema for SSH is:
>>> ssh://user:password@server/my/folder/path/
>> That seems very close to what I'm using in sbackup (anonimized version
>> shown):
>>
>> ssh://uname@xxxxxxxxxxxx/home/uname/xd/backup_note-uname
>>
>> Except for the fact that I do include my verbatim password in the url,
>> since that is stored in plain text in (ns)sbackup's config file. I have
>> in stead set up passkeys for secure login without password (which works
>> flawlessly with plain ssh/scp/sftp etc., and with sbackup).
>>
>> Is this what nsbackup cannot handle?
> 
> yes, you go it right !
> Here is the Regex that NSsbackups SSH plugin uses:
> 
> "^(ssh://)([^:]+?:[^@]+?)@([^/^:^@]+?)/(.*)"
> 
> look at the matchScheme method here:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nssbackup-dev/nssbackup/0.2/annotate/head%3A/src/nssbackup/plugins/sshFuseFAM.py
> 
> So not putting a password is not an option :-( .
> 
>> I don't think that is desired
>> behaviour, for the reason mentioned above. I propose adding an
>> additional schema (or modifying the existing one; I don't know how this
>> works in detail) to accept 'ssh://user@server/my/folder/path/'.
>> (Where) Can I start fixing this?
> 
> You can get the code using this page:
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~nssbackup-dev/nssbackup/0.2
> 
> but the real problem here is not changing the Regex, but to use
> pexpect correctly. If you know another api that can allow us to use
> fuse, we might change for that one.

No, I don't know. Can't we handle this with pexpect in some way?


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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