Cannot authenticate usin ssh

[Chris Mason]

I have a backup script that copies the contents of a backup directory to
my local server at night.
The command is run from a script: /etc/cron.daily/backup


/usr/bin/rsync -arvz -e ssh user at servername.com:/home/backups/*
backup_disk/servername/ 

The output from the cron job is:
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error:
error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)


I don't know what to do now.


When I run the script from the command line as root it works. From cron
it doesn't. The ssh keys are exchanged and no passphrase is required.

Chris Mason
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