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So I am creating a PHP script that uploads an image from my local environment to a remote server. I have my SSH keys set up on both ends and if I simply execute the scp command in terminal it sometimes does not ask for password and sometimes it does. Also, for some reason, it takes about 30-60 seconds to return a result of the scp command.

<?php 
    $result = system("scp /home/pi/camImage1.jpg username@<myserver>:~/public_html/folder1/innerfolder/camImage.jpg");
    echo $result;
?>

Whenever I use it on the php side, it always asks for password. Any suggestions on what the heck is going on?

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  • take a look at PHP SSH2 library. It can make your life easier if you're trying to do SSH stuff in PHP.
    – VL-80
    Commented Jan 4, 2014 at 20:45
  • The PHP process might be running as a different user, so it wouldn't see your usual key.
    – jjlin
    Commented Jan 4, 2014 at 22:08

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As your regular user I am going to guess you have the ssh key in menory (ssh-agent) so it does not require a password after the first connection. When running the scp command with php you did not specify a key, so my guess is you are being asked the user login password and not the ssh key.

IMO, if you wish to run this command via php, I would advise you make a key with no password and on the server disable login via password. You then specify a key with the scp command. 

scp -i /home/pi/.ssh/your_key ...

for additional information on using keys, disabling password authentication, see your distro's documentation.

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  • This will probably still have issues in that the www-data user doesn't have permissions to access any key the the /home/user hierarchy. It's not a good idea to do it, but the solution is likely to be creating a key under the www-data user.
    – joatd
    Commented Jan 4, 2014 at 22:42
  • Probably. You might be able to the www-data the proper ownership/group , but I am not sure.
    – Panther
    Commented Jan 4, 2014 at 22:44

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