shell() vs terminal re. ssh

[Monte Goulding]

You probably want to make sure the remote user is pretty restricted too. Anyone that has control of your web server user will have control of that account too.

Cheers

Monte

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> On 24 Dec 2015, at 8:22 am, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.