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Using rsync from cron on server A to pull files from server B via ssh.

Server A has a passwordless private key, the public key is in authorized_keys on Server B.

I can ssh from Server A to Server B.

To prevent use of ForwardAgent specific no configuration file:

ssh -F /dev/null -v admin@servera

Once on the server try and ssh in to the server

ssh admin@serverb

"Permission denied (publickey)." as expected.

ssh -v -i /path/to/private_key admin@serverb

Now I am in the server. So the key works. Exit back out and try rsync.

rsync -P --archive --compress --quiet --rsh='ssh -v -i /path/to/private_key -o IdentitiesOnly=yes' admin@serverb:/src/path /dest/path

If it works then try without any ENV set (similar to cron):

env - rsync ...
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