Re: remote copy issues

Sorry about that. We have been maintaining both login.cfg and /etc/shells. The /etc/shells must be a holdover from a long time ago when the company I am at switched from Sun to AIX.
I have seen /bin/bash defined in login.cfg, but not /usr/bin/bash. Although /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin, it is not an exact match.

Does anyone else have any other ideas on what could be causing both scp and rcp to fail?
Try,scp -v -v sourcelocation destlocation
-Ed Davignon
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Bleistein
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:37 PM
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Subject: Re: remote copy issues

/etc/shells shouldn't be in AIX. It's function is replaced by the /etc/security/login.cfg file, with the shells parameter.
Basically it's a list of valid shells. Any Unix shells, full pathnames like /usr/bin/ksh, listed in there will be a valid shell for a user, any shell that is not listed there will not be a valid shell/login program for a user..

Example if the shell is not listed in the /etc/security/login.cfg file then, if you try to set that shell as the login
shell for a user by editing the /etc/passwd file directly, or issuing the passwd -s user_name command, then
it won't be a valid shell, because it is not listed in that file.

Thanks,

Justin Richard Bleistein | AIX System Administration
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What is in /etc/shells?

Does it match what is in lsuser?

cat /etc/shells
lsuser -a shell bashuser

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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Schlechte
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:32 PM
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Subject: remote copy issues
It would seem me changing a userid from ksh to bash via NIS has introduced some problems with rcp and scp capabilities of that user as it used to work..
I can also still run rcp and scp commands as root so it seems to be attributed to the shell change. Possible?
Although if I check my own userid (which uses bash) it works so it seems unlikley.
The symptons are:
- the rcp cmd just hangs
- the scp cmd goes through the motions and returns my prompt but there isn't any copy done
- rsh and ssh both work

????





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