A few months ago, I had a cron job scp a file to another box within my lan. It worked great and things were good. I dont remember why I turned it off, but Im trying to set it back up. Both boxes are running FBSD 4.6.2-Release. On the sending box -> 1. ssh-keygen -t rsa //Accept the defaults and leave the passphrase empty. 2. scp id_rsa.pub sys_dev@hivemind: //SCP the public key over to the recieving box to the user who is going to recieve the file from the cron job.
On the recieving box -> 1. cp id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys // Copy the sender's public key to .ssh/authorized_keys From the sending box, I run my script using the -v option to scp to be verbose. Here is the output of the script -> ---------------------------- Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host hivemind, user sys_dev, command scp -v -t . OpenSSH_3.4p1 FreeBSD-20020702, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090605f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to hivemind.trini0.org [192.168.0.2] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/gsam/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/gsam/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: identity file /home/gsam/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.4p1 FreeBSD-20020702 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.4p1 FreeBSD-20020702 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_3.4p1 FreeBSD-20020702 debug1: Waiting for server public key. debug1: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits). debug1: Host 'hivemind.trini0.org' is known and matches the RSA1 host key. debug1: Found key in /home/gsam/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug1: Encryption type: 3des debug1: Sent encrypted session key. debug1: cipher_init: set keylen (16 -> 32) debug1: cipher_init: set keylen (16 -> 32) debug1: Installing crc compensation attack detector. debug1: Received encrypted confirmation. debug1: Doing password authentication. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: -------------------------- Could someone point out to me where Im going wrong with this to have the cron job complete successfully without entering a password. Thanks. -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
