WinXP service problem

[Rachan Malhotra]

That's all right. I got what you were trying to say. Besides, it made me 
feel good about my own typos ;-)

Larry Hall wrote:

>Boy, I didn't proofread that one very well. ;-)
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>At 11:56 AM 8/5/2004, you wrote:
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>>At 10:53 AM 8/5/2004, you wrote:
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>>>Ok. I think I figured out the problem. But I still do not have a solution for it. Here's what I think the problem is:
>>>When the script is run as a windows service, the user that's calling the script is SYSTEM. Inside the script is a call to ssh client with the required parameters. I pass it the absolute path of the id_rsa file. The issue seems to be that user SYSTEM is not the owner of id_rsa file so it is being asked for a passphrase. On the contrary, if I add the batch script to startup programs, then no passphrase is asked and I am logged in right away. The problem here is that the command prompt window stays on the screen. This is something I wanted to avoid to begin with.
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>>Ah, OK.  Yeah, that would be a problem.  I had thought you had said you
>>were running this service as the user you wanted to 'ssh' as but I guess
>>I didn't.  You could try that.  That should help (and keep you from needing 
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>^^^^^^^^^^
>I was wrong about that.
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>>to specify the 'id_rsa' file.
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