scp works on command line, fails in cron

tonij67_at_hotmail.com
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: 28 Dec 2004 06:58:18 -0800

Hi all,

I am a bit baffled here. I have set up public/private key
authentication many times and have not had the sort of problem I am
having now.

I am testing a script that will be the framework for more complicated
tasks and the first test I want to run is a simple scp from one server
to another. I am starting very simple, no passphrase (yet) and am
already running into a wall. When I run this command:

/usr/local/bin/scp /tmp/2 10.46.0.102:/utils/backup

It copies the file /tmp/2 to /utils/backup on 10.46.0.102 with no
issue. When I try to do the same thing from cron, I get an email from
cron with this:

Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
lost connection

Any ideas why authentication works fine from the command line, but
gives the above error in cron?

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