Thanx a lot for your help !! hope it works regards dom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Armin Schöch" <armin@iap-kborn.de> To: "Dominik Metzler" <doeme@dplanet.ch> Cc: <suse-security@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [suse-security] secure copy problems Hello Dominik !

I try to copy some directories from one machine to an other with scp. Now I would like to do this with a cronjob, but it doesn't work. I think there is a problem with the authentication key for the remote-machine. Is there anybody who can help me, to solve this problems.

You need to put the public key from your machine into the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" file on the remote host. Try to enter the "scp" command on the prompt. Does it work ? do you have to enter a password ? Have you specified the "-r" option for copying directories recursively ? HTH, Armin -- Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6 Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY Email: schoech@iap-kborn.de Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102 WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50