Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
So, my manager, in zsh, can do the following: scp -i =(ssh -qnx <snip> cat /etc/ks/ks_dsa) localfile server:/whereitgoes
<snip>
I think you'll have to drop the key in a tmp file yourself. Poking around with strace a bit it looks like that is what zsh actually does while bash gives what is essentially a named pipe where scp or ssh will attempt a seek (???) and then fail to read. The subsequent prompt for a passphrase in nonsense - it has already given up and closed it by then.
THANK YOU, Les. I hadn't gotten to thinking about using strace (admittedly, I'd been busy with other stuff, too).
So either I write a tiny script, do it from the server with the actually key, or run it as a zsh command.
*piffle*
Thanks again.
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