shell() vs terminal re. ssh

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:

 > I'm no bash expert but I just wanted to check the user your cgi is
 > bing run under is the same as the user you are logging into to run
 > the script from terminal.

Thanks, Monte and Mike.

Yes, that was the problem - CGIs run as a different user.  But I have 
root on that server so I logged in as the CGI process, generated a key 
pair, copied the pub key to the other server, and now my CGI can handle 
the transfer well.

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