scp problems between Solaris and Tru64

From: Dr. David Kirkby (drkirkby_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 05/17/03 

Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 03:04:41 +0100

I've a Sun Ultra 80 running Solaris 9 and a Dec Alpha running Tru64
UNIX V5.1B. I'd like to securely copy a file from the Sun to the Dec
Alpha.

Attempting to connect to the Dec Alpha (dobermann) from the Sun
(sparrow) using secure shell (ssh) works fine, using
public-key/private-key. Attempting to transfer a file via sftp works
fine too. But if I try to copy a file to the Dec Alpha using scp, it
fails to work. It seems odd that ssh and sftp work, but not scp.

sparrow % scp -v atlc-4.3.0.tar.gz davek@dobermann:/tmp
Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host dobermann, user davek, command
scp -v -t /tmp
scp: warning: Executing scp1 compatibility.
scp: FATAL: Executing ssh1 in compatibility mode failed (Check that
scp1 is in your PATH).
lost connection

(in each case, the secure xxx files are all Sun originals in /usr/bin.
)

Firstly, I don't understand why a connection attempt is being made
using scp1. The Dec Alpha's server is not configured to accept ssh1
type connections (or at least that's my belief), as the lines for ssh1
compatibility are commented out.

# this is part of /etc/ssh2/sshd_config on the Dec Alpha dobermann.
## SSH1 compatibility

# Ssh1Compatibility <set by configure by default>
# Sshd1Path <set by configure by default>

so I can only assume ssh and sftp are using the xxx2 protocol, not the
xxx1 protocol.

But secondly, the Sun does not have an scp1 file, only ssh, scp and
sftp, but no ssh1, scp1, sftp1, ssh2, scp2 or sftp2. So quite why the
Sun wants scp1 in the path I don't know.

Thirdly, the Sun does not have a -t option to scp, so I'm not sure why
the debugging option (-d) says its using the -t option.

Any suggestions?? 

-- 
Dr. David Kirkby,
Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Medical Physics,
University College London,
11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA.
Tel: 020 7679 6408 Fax: 020 7679 6269
Internal telephone: ext 46408
e-mail davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk

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