[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="4.153.254.222" subject="comment 1" date="2013-07-08T16:55:09Z" content=""" Finally got a chance to look into this. The ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the server has been set up wrong by the webapp. If you look at it, it'll contain a part like: command=\"GIT_ANNEX_SHELL_DIRECTORY=... ~/.ssh/git-annex-shell\" That can't be used for rsync. If you delete that command= part, your remote should start working. """]]