Re: [ILUG] SCP confusion

From: Brendan Halpin (brendan.halpin at domain ul.ie)
Date: Thu 31 May 2001 - 16:42:19 IST


Niall O Broin <niall at domain linux.ie> writes:

> The ssh binary doesn't need to be found when you ssh in, and your path when
> you ssh in and get a shell is not necessarily the same as when you do an
> scp. Try doing
>
> ssh remote_box type scp
>
> presuming that the remot box is running a shell which understands type -
> otherwise substitute which or whatever remote command is appropriate. If you
> don't get something like scp is /usr/bin/scp but instead get something
> like bash: type: scp: not found then you've found the problem, otherwise
> I'm stumped :-) pending further information.

That's effectively what I got:

[brendan at domain wivenhoe ltr]$ ssh brendan at domain isergp3.essex.ac.uk type scp
brendan at domain remote.machine's password:
scp is /bhps/dist/os/bin/scp

And that's part of the default path.

However, I reckon there the installation at one or other end is
screwed up. If I try to ssh from there to here the authentication
fails (three goes at the password then disconnect):

May 31 16:42:58 wivenhoe sshd[2057]: Failed password for brendan from 555.555.50.24 port 46966 ssh2
May 31 16:43:05 wivenhoe last message repeated 2 times
May 31 16:43:05 wivenhoe sshd[2057]: Failed none for brendan from 555.555.50.24 port 46966 ssh2
May 31 16:43:06 wivenhoe sshd[2057]: Received disconnect from 555.555.50.24: 14: No further authentication methods available.

I hate this stage: trying to figure out *how* something works and
*whether* it works, at the same time.

Brendan

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