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Re: SCP under SYSTEM
- From: Birl <sbirl at astro dot ocis dot temple dot edu>
- To: Bob Bradford <Bob dot Bradford at kntc dot ca>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:29:45 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: SCP under SYSTEM
BB> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 07:22:26 -0500
BB> From: Bob Bradford <Bob.Bradford@kntc.ca>
BB> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
BB> Subject: SCP under SYSTEM
BB>
BB>
BB> Hi,
BB>
BB> I am trying to run an SCP operation as a scheduled operation. It is
BB> convenient to fit this in with existing scheduled batch files using AT,
BB> and it all seems to run except that scp is complaining about keys (key
BB> verification failed message) and does not copy the file. If I run the
BB> bat file by hand as administrator it works fine.
BB>
BB> I think the cause is that there are no keys for SYSTEM. The AT command
BB> runs things as SYSTEM. I generated keys for Administrator, but I don't
BB> think those will get used by SYSTEM (true?). So how do I get this script
BB> to work? Can I generate keys for SYSTEM? Can I get it to use the
BB> Administrator keys (note the script must be able to be run by any user,
BB> so I can't force it to just one identity file)?
BB>
BB> I can run the thing from cron if cron switches user context, if that is
BB> the only solution. It will just be very inconvenient to have this one
BB> thing scheduled by cron when the rest are scheduled by AT.
BB>
BB> Bob
You created the AT job for the SYSTEM account; if you open up the
properties of the AT job, you could change the "Run as" to the
Administrator account.
Also, have you try to setup a one-time-only AT job to run ssh-keygen for
the SYSTEM account?
at <time> /interactive ssh-keygen
Hope this helps
Scott Birl Scott.Birl@temple.edu
UNIX Consultant/Systems Administrator Computer Services Temple University
1805 North Broad Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19122 United States
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