[vox-tech] crontab and scp puzzle [SOLVED]

[Bruce Wolk]

Harold diagnosed the problem!  It was the .pub key I was passing.  But 
why did it work when I ran it directly from the console?  Perhaps the 
ssh-agent provided the key.  Thank you all very much for your suggestions.

On 03/16/2011 06:02 PM, Harold Lee wrote:
> Are you passing your public or private key filename via -i?
>
> These lines imply that scp tried to use the file as a private key but
> failed because it couldn't figure out what kind of file (rsa/dsa) it
> was. That happens if you use the id_dsa.pub instead of the id_dsa
> file.
>
> debug1: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed
> debug1: read PEM private key done: type<unknown>
>
> Harold
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Bruce Wolk<bawolk at ucdavis.edu>  wrote:
>> I tried -B as well.
>>
>> On 03/16/2011 05:36 PM, Michael Wenk wrote:
>>> I was going to suggest the -B option, but that should be the same as
>>> -o BatchMode=yes ...
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Kyle Ambroff<kyle at ambroff.com>    wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Kyle Ambroff<kyle at ambroff.com>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I know I've used this answer before on this list, and I'm sure it's annoying, but if your solution involves passphraseless ssh keys, you're doing it wrong.
>>>>> That being said, since cron is a daemon, it is not attached to a controlling terminal. That means that a script that expects to be able to read input from the user is going to fail. You can probably force it to bypass this code with BatchMode.
>>>>>       ssh -o BatchMode=yes ...
>>>>> For good measure, you could even set TERM if it's not being set.
>>>>>       env TERM=dumb ssh -o BatchMode=yes ...
>>>>
>>>> Replace "ssh" with "scp" and that still works.
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