Re: scp works on command line, fails in cron

From: Chuck (skilover_nospam_at_softhome.net)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:29:33 -0500

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tonij67@hotmail.com wrote:
| 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?
|

Are you using a ssh-agent, or an encrypted private key?
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