[lug] Cron ssh suid problem

[David]

> I can run this script as myself, but when I try to run it as root (as,
> presumably, cron does) my authenticity cannot be established with ssh
> or scp, so the script fails.  I tried setting the suid bit

If I understand this correctly you are making the same misteak I made
this morning 8-) When I realised what I was doing I tried again and
was able to ssh as root by using the -l parameter:
ssh -l user host

dajo