sshpass not working with cron tab

Question

I have a script with following line

sshpass -p 'password' ssh user@server "touch /tmp/test"

this works, when I run the script, but if I put the script in cron it doesen't work. any ideas ?

What does the cron entry look like? Are you putting it in your own, root's crontab (using sudo) of that of some other user? — jDo, Apr 14 '16 at 23:45
Is it getting an error? Any output from the cron job should be sent to you as email (I hope you're not redirecting the output to /dev/null). — Barmar, Apr 14 '16 at 23:57

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '16 at 16:49

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Since this is the first answer on google, give sshpass absolute path like /usr/bin/sshpass. you can get the path by which sshpass. I also added /usr/bin/ssh to be sure.

answered Dec 16 '16 at 16:49

rcpfuchs

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This answer should be accepted. It works. – membersound Jun 08 '21 at 07:21

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '16 at 07:14

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It worked after adding -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no

sshpass -p 'password' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no user@server "touch /tmp/test"

answered Apr 23 '16 at 07:14

him

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sshpass not working with cron tab

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