On 14/02/2017 19:43, I R A Darth Aggie wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 04:04:47 -0800 (PST),
> Jack Lobingier , in
>  wrote:
>
>> I have an SCP script that auto completes just fine from the terminal
>> window in Pi.  When I use either subprocess or os to try and have
>> it run under Python it does not do the file transfer from Pi to my
>> Ubuntu machine.  What am I doing wrong?  Here is the script:
>>
>>  from subprocess import call
>>  cmd='scp -i id_rsa sample.txt jack@192.168.1.103 /home/jack/pi_data'
>>  call (cmd.split ())
>
> I'm guessing, but since it works from the command line but not from a
> non-interactive mode, you might try this: scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Yes, that's what I thought: use the complete path to the id file (maybe
even don't use "~", to avoid all potential ambiguity).

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