Thanks.. although just creation of the .ssh directory didn't help much, I copied the contents of the .shh of the current user to /usr/share/tomcat5/.ssh and it worked.
Although its not the ideal solution, but works well.. Leandro Dardini-3 wrote: > > You can easily solve this problem with the following steps: > > #Create the .ssh key directory > > mkdir /usr/share/tomcat5/.ssh > > #Assign ownership to tomcat > > chown tomcat /usr/share/tomcat5/.ssh > > I don't think further steps are necessary... > > Leandro > > >> -----Messaggio originale----- >> Da: Gagan Malik [mailto:gaganma...@dev.java.net] >> Inviato: martedì 18 agosto 2009 4.08 >> A: users@tomcat.apache.org >> Oggetto: tomcat service public key >> >> >> Hi, I'm a newbie to both tomcat and ssh and here's my problem: >> >> I have a web-app (Hudson) running on tomcat (ver 5). This >> Tomcat runs as a service on RHEL box. Hudson triggers a >> custom 'ant' script to do a build which uses ssh to login to >> another server (svn server). >> >> The ant script runs perfectly fine when triggered manually, >> since the user that runs it shares his public key with the >> svn server. But when the same is done via Hudson, it fails >> since hudson is run by the user: tomcat. >> >> How can I generate and share the public key of user 'tomcat' >> (the service) with the svn server so that the ant script does >> not fail. >> >> >> I get this error: >> Could not create directory '/usr/share/tomcat5/.ssh'. >> Host key verification failed. >> svn: Connection closed unexpectedly >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/tomcat-service-public-key-tp25017278p250 > 17278.html >> Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/tomcat-service-public-key-tp25017278p25031926.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org