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Nadine
Nadine

Reputation: 787

Why is rsync prompting for password in bash script, but runs fine when executed outside of script?

I have a shared SSH keys with another server so I can login without a password. Executing:

rsync -avze ssh --blocking-io --delete --rsh='ssh -p2020' [email protected]:/foo/* /bar/;

Runs fine. No password prompt. But that command in a bash file:

#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
rsync -avze ssh --blocking-io --delete --rsh='ssh -p2020' [email protected]:/foo/* /bar/;

Run like so:

sudo ./copyfiles.sh

Gives me this:

[email protected]'s password:

Any ideas why?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 901

Answers (2)

Rafa Viotti
Rafa Viotti

Reputation: 10522

The sudo program is probably creating a new shell without some SSH environment variables.

Try

sudo -E ./copyfiles.sh

Upvotes: 0

Costi Ciudatu
Costi Ciudatu

Reputation: 38205

You seem to be running the script as root (sudo) but run the command line as some other user (this is just a guess). Most likely, the public key of the root user is not present on the destination machine.

Upvotes: 3

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