Re: [Duplicity-talk] Erring out when using cron, but working on the command line.

[edgar . soldin]

what stumps me is that it does not simply find and provide the other ssh-agent 
instance running under as same user. gpg-agent seems to do so since some time.

anyway, actually not an duplicity issue. but if you think it worth documenting 
we might probably add some lines in the man page under 'a Note on Ssh Backends'
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/vers8/duplicity.1.html#sect26

feel free to provide some concise mini howto.. ede/duply.net

On 13.05.2020 13:20, Diagon via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> This I was able to figure out.  It's a standard issue in cron.  Somehow you 
> have to get information on how to access encrypted ssh keys to the subshell.  
> Typically that would be via making an ssh-agent accessible to the subshell.  
> The following link describes three approaches:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/18041092
>
> This is apparently basic enough, that I might suggest that it should be in a 
> duplicity FAQ somewhere?  Maybe it is and I didn't see it.
>
> /D
>
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> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 20:32:17 -0700
> Subject: Erring out when using cron, but working on the command line.
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>  > I'm backing up to a remote location via cron.  The following command works 
> on the command line, but fails in crontab:
>  >
>  > */10 * * * * PASSPHRASE="mypassword" flock -n /tmp/backuplock 
> /usr/bin/duplicity --log-file /home/me/duplicity.log --backend-retry-delay 60 
> --asynchronous-upload --name TEST --volsize 50 --full-if-older-than 6M 
> --exclude '**.lock' /home/me/Desktop/TEST sftp://address@hidden/Backup
>  >
>  > The error is:
>  >
>  > ERROR 23 BackendException
>  > . BackendException: ssh connection to address@hidden:22 failed: Private 
> key file is encrypted
>  >
>  > I'm confused because my understanding is that my crontab will run under my 
> same uname.
>  >
>  > Is there something I need to do with ssh-agent or somesuch?  Does anyone 
> have any suggestions?  I've never looked into this end of things.
>  >
>  > Thanks! /D
>
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