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in thread Perl script in cron

I tried the prvileged port thing, but nothing changed. When reading the docs for Net::SSH::Perl it seems to only make sence when using rhost and seems to default to true when root is detected as user.

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Re^7: Perl script in cron
by Herkum (Parson) on Dec 19, 2006 at 14:00 UTC

    As I recall the switch that I used was not in the documentation. :( I cannot help you because the code I wrote was at a previous job and I no longer have access to it. :(

    If you don't get your answer here do try the mailing list. Someone will respond to your request. Good luck.

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      OK ... I kicked on debugging and it seems to be a problem with the key passphrase in batchmode: 
      nw05: Trying empty user-authentication request.
nw05: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,keyboard-int
+eractive.
nw05: Next method to try is publickey.
nw05: Trying pubkey authentication with key file '/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pu
+b'
nw05: Will not query passphrase for '/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub' in batch m
+ode.
nw05: Loading private key failed.
Permission denied at /root/bin/getsysinfo.pl line 43

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      Gonna take a closer look on this.

      /Roger
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        If I didn't know better, I'd say ssh is detecting the lack of a terminal and assuming it's in batch mode. I thought Net::SSH was native perl, but now I wonder if it has forked a /bin/ssh? ssh will definitely drop into "batch mode" from chron unless it's told not to do so, and afaik it won't accept passwords when it considers itself to be non-interactive.

        Perhaps you should set up a keypair?

        Update: duh. The native perl ssh has a different name: Net::SSH::Perl

        -Paul

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