Re: Make SFTP use identity file instead of password?

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:49:37AM -0900, Roger wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:22:49AM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
>>On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:58:11PM -0900, Roger wrote:
>>> Just curious, anybody interested in getting Sitecopy to use an identity file
>>> instead of password when using SFTP/SCP?  (aka -i switch to ssh/scp/sftp)
>>
>>Hi, you should be able to customise these already, though it doesn't 
>>seem to be mentioned in the man page - use the "rcp" and "rsh" keywords 
>>work to specify an alternate sftp/scp command-line, i.e:
>>
>>site foo
>>   protocol sftp
>>   rsh ssh -i bar
>>   rcp scp -i bar
>>   ...
>>
>>if this doesn't work please let me know.
>
>I tried both, then either one on the 0.16.6 version and no go.
>
>~/src/sitecopy/sitecopy-0.16.6 $ ./sitecopy -u sdf -dftp
>sitecopy: rcfile corrupt at line 15:
>    rsh ssh -i /home/roger/.ssh/id_rsa_sdf.lonestar.org
>
>~/src/sitecopy/sitecopy-0.16.6 $ ./sitecopy -u sdf -dftp
>sitecopy: rcfile corrupt at line 16:
>    rcp scp -i /home/roger/.ssh/id_rsa_sdf.lonestar.org 
>
>
>File $HOME/.sitecopyrc:
>---snip---
>site blah
>    server oh.somewhere.over.the.hill.org
>    #protocol ftp
>    protocol sftp
>    #rsh ssh -i /home/joeblow/.ssh/id_you_wishy_washy
>    rcp scp -i /home/joeblow/.ssh/id_you_wishy_washy
>    username joeblow
>    local /my/folder/
>    remote /my/remote/folder/
>    permissions all
>---snip--

I got a little further by using double quotes:
---snip---
site blah
    server oh.somewhere.over.the.hill.org
    protocol sftp
    rsh "ssh -i /home/joeblow/.ssh/id_you_wishy_washy"
    rcp "scp -i /home/joeblow/.ssh/id_you_wishy_washy"
    username joeblow
    local /my/folder/
    remote /my/remote/folder/
    permissions all


I kept getting a "No such file".  I don't know if it's relevant but it does
occur at approximately the place sftp starts:

---snip---
File: local=about/beanyweeny.html stored=., new
Time: 1114586764/0 Size: 0/0ASCII:n/n Perms:644/000
Reading info file: /home/stud/.sitecopy/mysite
sitecopy: Updating site `mysite' (on somewhere.overthehill.org in /my/remote/folder/)
Creating about/: SFTP: 'mkdir /my/remote/folder/about'
sftp exec: scp -i /home/joeblow/.ssh/id_you_wishy_washy  [email protected]: No such file or directory
SFTP: 'mkdir /my/remote/folder/joeblow/about'
SFTP: 'mkdir /my/remote/folder/joeblow/files'
---snip---

Even after creating the (wonderful) netrc and/or ~/.sitecopy/p* files,
still seeing this error.

One thing I want to make note here, sitecopy should make a backup of the
$HOME/.sitecopy/site hash file.  It's always getting corrupt!


My main issue was being able to issue non-interactive sitecopy updates and
since I have a low bandwidth here, encryption isn't really desired.  However,
if I can get it working, it would be great.