[chef] Why am I getting this error from net-scp?

[Brad Knowles < >]

Folks,

So, I'm doing some compliance work for a customer (not PCI, but similar), and 
one thing we decided was to use scp to upload and download large files from a 
central fileserver.  This way we don't have to worry about opening any more 
holes in firewalls (because ssh already has to be open), no additional 
Pandoras Boxes, etc....

The download works fine.  But when I'm trying to upload the results of the 
scan, it bombs out.  The weird thing is that the code uses Mixlib::ShellOut 
to go find the file in question just a few lines above, but then Net:Scp 
craps out.

A slice of logs showing the error message is at 
<http://pastebin.com/YXPu4TKS>.

I haven't done the Windows side of the code yet, but the Linux part of the 
code for this section looks like this:

if platform_family?("rhel")
  ruby_block 'find-and-upload-ciscat-results' do
    block do
      require 'mixlib/shellout'
      require 'net/scp'
      cmd       = Mixlib::ShellOut.new("find #{resdir} -name '*.xml' | sort | 
tail -1")
      cmd.run_command
      cmd.error!
      source    = cmd.stdout
      Chef::Log.debug("Uploading source file #{source} to 

 :#{target}")
      Net::SCP.upload!(host, user, source, target, :ssh => { :password => 
pass })
    end
  end

# elsif platform_family?("windows")
end


Am I doing something incredibly stupid here?

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