Question

Hi guys I have been searching for the solution and while it is probably something obvious it is escaping me.

I am trying to use rake to run some tasks over ssh via the system command but it doesn’t recognize my .ssh/config file.

For example:

task :my_task
  system("ssh myserver 'command on myserver'")
end

This gives me the error:

ssh: Could not resolve hostname myserver: Name or service not known

When I run the command from the command line outside of rake it runs fine.

It also works when tested in irb:

system "ssh myserver 'command on myserver'"

Any ideas on what (probably completely obvious thing) I am missing with rake?

Answer 1

ssh is really ornery and will ignore things it doesn’t think are “secure enough”, so you may have a valid file but invalid permissions.

A quick fix is usually:

chmod go-rwx ~/.ssh/*