Re: scp problems between Solaris and Tru64

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

Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 19:39:41 +0100

"Dr. David Kirkby" wrote:
>
> Dave Uhring wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 17 May 2003 03:04:41 +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > > Any suggestions??
> >
> > Dump the SSH2 on the Alpha and install OpenSSH.

Okay, this seems VERY VERY odd. As suggested, I installed OpenSSH
version 3.6p1 on the Dec Alpha - the same as on all my machines,
(except the Sun Ultra 80, which has Sun's version based on OpenSSH).

I've set up empty passphrases (this is home network, and this system
is behind a firewall). I can ssh or sftp, but still I am unable to
use scp. But scp works fine to other systems.

Here I copy a file from the Sun Ultra 80 (sparrow) running Solaris 9
to a Sun SPARCstation 20 (woodpecker) running Solaris 2.5 and OpenSSH
3.6p1.

sparrow /export/home/davek % scp foo davek@woodpecker:/tmp
foo 100%
|*************************************************************************|
27636 00:00

(it works to machines running Redhat, Debian, NetBSD too, but the
Solaris 2.5 machine is the only one I have online now).

Now I try it to the Dec Alpha, running OpenSSH 3.6p1

sparrow /export/home/davek % scp foo davek@dobermann:/tmp
scp: warning: Executing scp1 compatibility.
scp: FATAL: Executing ssh1 in compatibility mode failed (Check that
scp1 is in your PATH).
lost connection

But the Dec Alpha (dobermann) is running OpenSSH. I can ssh to it okay
and check that.

sparrow /export/home/davek % ssh dobermann
Last login: Sat May 17 18:56:42 BST 2003 from sparrow
Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650); Fri May 2 21:42:35 BST 2003

$ ps -elf | grep sshd
    8001 I 0 628 1 0.0 44 0 296K event
18:47:55 0:00.08 /usr/local/sbin/sshd
    8001 S 0 1062 628 0.0 44 0 552K event
19:08:57 0:00.05 /usr/local/sbin/sshd
80808001 S + 1766 1065 1064 0.2 44 0 232K 3cbe7ddc
19:09:25 0:00.01 grep sshd

Note, the sshd running is running from /usr/local/sbin, as I can see
if try to run again, but NOT as root. It prints its version
(OpenSSH_3.6p1) but fails to load the hostkeys, which is to be
expected as I'm not root.

$ /usr/local/sbin/sshd -d
debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_3.6p1
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

So why the hell is going on? Any other 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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