[PLUG] Rsync failing in cron due to ssh permissions

[Bill East <wm.east@gmail.com>]

I've got a simple task, rsyncing a couple of directories. So I first tested in command line, then in a shell script, then in cron. The first two... worked. The last... didn't. Cron reported "failed to exec ssh - Permission denied (13)" So after some fruitless fiddling around I thought to try ssh on its own. A shell script that just did 'ssh -vv -l user -i /path/to/key destination.domain touch fred.txt'

Again, worked from the command line and the script, failed from cron. I got the incredibly helpful cron error:
/usr/bin/ssh: Permission denied.

So... /usr/bin/ssh is set to 755. I don't see anything in /etc/ssh/ssh_config that would prohibit cron from running it. The cron daemon itself is running as root - it's Dillon's crond if that's important.

Thoughts? Is this so painfully obvious I just can't see it?

Thanks
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