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Date:      Fri, 04 Oct 2002 13:31:56 -0400
From:      Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   passwordless scp and cronjobs
Message-ID:  <3D9DD08C.1060904@trini0.org>

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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_keys2  // Copy the sender's public key 
to .ssh/authorized_keys2

  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.
sys_dev@hivemind.trini0.org'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/




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