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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-99
Severity: normal
Hello,
I have an rsync command in my user's crontab file, however it does not
work. :-(
I get the following error:
---
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(463) [sender=2.6.8]
---
When I run the command manually (copy and paste from the crontab file) it
works fine.
HTH,
.George.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.2006081401
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.99 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.17.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-3.2 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 1.32-2 SELinux shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-17 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii exim4 4.63-7 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.63-7 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello George,
George B. wrote:
> I have an rsync command in my user's crontab file, however it does not
> work. :-(
>
> I get the following error:
>
> ---
> Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(463) [sender=2.6.8]
> ---
>
> When I run the command manually (copy and paste from the crontab file) it
> works fine.
This isn't a bug in cron. The error message you are seeing is from a
remote SSH server, indicating that authentication failed (neither an SSH
key nor a password were supplied). Running the copy-paste from the
command line probably works because an agent (ssh-agent, gnome-keyring,
...) is running in the background.
If you want cron to run rsync+ssh jobs for you, you'll need an
unencrypted key. I'd strongly recommend locking this key down (see the
section AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT in sshd(8), particularly the
command="" option).
Regards,
Christian
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