Hi Robert, as you may have seen, our mailing list software strips all HTML parts from mails. I'm sure there has been some message in addition to the tarball 8-)
I've committed modified versions of your code - in particular I've made the password part of user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path optional to really enable key based authentication for scp and made your SSHExec task use SSHBase (more than it did before, at least 8-). The main thing missing now is documentation for <sshexec>. Stefan