scp -t - revisited.....þ

[Thomas Baden]

Hi Larry et al,

--- Larry Becke <guyverdh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> It might be fun to play with it to see what you can
> and can't force via the command= override from the
> authorized_keys file.

I ran into an annoying side effect a while back when I
started packaging up these -i and command=
combinations...  If you have a key agent running, the
key agent will get first dibs despite the specific key
listed in the -i.  So you'll want to prepend your
initiating scp command with SSH_AUTH_SOCK= like so:

$ SSH_AUTH_SOCK= scp -i key file user at host:

I took things a bit further than you seem to have
done, and had my command= execute a shell script,
which would pick apart the passed SCP command
$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND and instead used the passed
"target directory" argument as a parameter to perform
a lookup for specialized handling.

Cheers,
-Thomas


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