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Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

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On 2020-09-21 18:04, Gary Dale wrote:

> The two servers are for different customers. I would not want to create 
> a tunnel between them. Instead I have my normal ssh tunnels to each 
> server from my workstation. However the script is only readable by root 
> while my tunnels are for my non-root account. While I could copy the 
> file to my non-root account (while root), chown it, copy it to my 
> workstation then to the other server, where I'd move it to /root, that's 
> a lot more work than cat, copy, paste, save.
> 
> Again, the method I used should not have created any changes in the 
> script that would affect its operation. And to date I've seen no 
> indication that it did. I still don't know why the script was leaving 
> the quotes in nor why it started working.

You might want to consider ssh-agent and SSH agent forwarding.  These 
allow you to access your version control server over SSH from remote 
hosts by using your workstation credentials; no credentials required on 
the remote host:

 
https://dev.to/levivm/how-to-use-ssh-and-ssh-agent-forwarding-more-secure-ssh-2c32


David

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weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 00:10 +0200
  Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-09-21 00:20 +0200
    Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 02:40 +0200
      Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 03:20 +0200
        Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 05:00 +0200
          Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 06:00 +0200
            Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 06:20 +0200
        Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 05:40 +0200
          Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 06:10 +0200
            Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 14:00 +0200
              Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 14:20 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-21 16:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 03:00 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-22 15:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 19:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-23 17:50 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 18:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 18:50 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 19:00 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 19:20 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 20:50 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-22 02:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 22:20 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 03:10 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-22 06:30 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 22:10 +0200
                SSH agent forwarding (was: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable  assignments) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-23 00:40 +0200
        Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 14:00 +0200
          Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 18:40 +0200
    Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 03:10 +0200
  Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-09-21 10:00 +0200
    Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 22:20 +0200
      Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 22:30 +0200
        Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 23:30 +0200
          Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 07:50 +0200
            Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 22:40 +0200
              Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-22 23:00 +0200
              Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-23 12:00 +0200

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