On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:56:35PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sat, 08 Feb 2003 01:01:48PM -0500, sean finney insinuated: > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:31:00PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > how can i create a cron job to rsync to a remote system? i use > > > ssh-askpass, but since cron runs as root, i get > > > > ssh-askpass is just a frontend to ssh-add, which is just a means for > > loading keys into your ssh-agent. assuming you're not running cron > > as a child of an ssh-agent process (which granted, would be sweet), > > i don't think it'd help much. if you're trying to use public key > > authentication, what you need is a passphraseless key (which i'm > > guessing you may already have) just for the job, called say > > .ssh/id_dsa_cron and .ssh/id_dsa_cron.pub. after you put the public > > key in your authorized keys file, you're basically set. all you > > need to do is > > > > export RSYNC_RSH="ssh -i .ssh/id_dsa_cron" rsync .... > > > > or > > > > rsync -e "ssh -i .ssh/id_dsa_cron" .... > > > > and then the ssh session spawned by rsync should attempt to > > authenticate with your key. > > so as i mentioned, this is beautiful. what about scp'ing as a cron > job? the analogue looks like it would be just > > scp -i $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_cron <filetoscp> <wheretoscp>: > > but i get that "permission denied" error. what's up? Who's the cronjob running as? ~/.ssh should be 700, which means no one but you can read anything in there. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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