I meant public/private keypair. We're talking about the same thing. I wasn't sure if you were using a password or keypair for authentication.
Christian On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:21 PM, PhatBaja <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately there's nothing useful in /var/log/messages > > I am using public key authentication. When I do an scp manually I > don't even need to type in the password but with capistrano's get I am > still getting the same error. > > servers: ["snake-eyes"] > ** scp download /home/cso/windowsxp-sp3-ie7-ff3-1.vdi -> /home/ > admin/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ > *** download via scp failed on c...@snake-eyes: SCP did not finish > successfully (1) (SCP did not finish successfully (1)) > download via scp failed on c...@snake-eyes: SCP did not finish > successfully (1) (SCP did not finish successfully (1)) > > Christian, what do you mean by "it's better to use a private key"? Can > you tell me how to do that? I am currently using a public key. > > > On Apr 21, 4:14 pm, Christian Eager <[email protected]> wrote: >> How are you authenticating with c...@snake-eyes? If you're using a >> password, >> it must be the same as the one you've previously entered for the user >> "admin". It's better to use a private key, which you must specify >> in the >> options, or have in a standard place, e.g., your local user's .ssh >> directory. >> >> On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Is there anything in the /var/log/messages (or equivalent) on your >> server? >> - Lee >> >> 2009/4/21 PhatBaja < <[email protected]>[email protected]> >> >> >> >>> I tried that too. It doesn't work. This is what I get: >> >>> ** scp download /home/cso/windowsxp-sp3-ie7-ff3-1.vdi -> /home/ >>> admin/ >>> *** download via scp failed on c...@snake-eyes: SCP did not finish >>> successfully (1) (SCP did not finish successfully (1)) >>> download via scp failed on c...@snake-eyes: SCP did not finish >>> successfully (1) (SCP did not finish successfully (1)) >> >>> On Apr 20, 8:34 am, Jamis Buck <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Try: >> >>>> :hosts => "c...@snake-eyes" >> >>>> - Jamis >> >>>> On 4/17/09 12:09 PM, PhatBaja wrote: >> >>>>> I want to download a file using a different user, but it seems >>>>> that it >>>>> is not possible. This is the command I am using: >> >>>>> get("/home/cso/windowsxp-sp3-ie7-ff3-1.vdi", "/home/ >>>>> admin/.VirtualBox/ >>>>> HardDisks/", :via => :scp, :hosts => "snake-eyes", :user => >>>>> "cso") >> >>>>> Password: >>>>> connection failed for: snake-eyes (Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed: >>>>> admin) >> >>>>> I want host A to download the file from host "snake-eyes" using >>>>> user >>>>> "cso". Using the parameter :user => "cso" did not work as it is >>>>> still >>>>> trying to connect to snake-eyes using user "admin". Any ideas? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
