Re: scp problems between Solaris and Tru64

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/17/03 

Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 14:18:15 -0500

On Sat, 17 May 2003 19:39:41 +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:

> 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

There is no scp1 in OpenSSH, nor is ther ssh1.
 
>
> 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.

Remove Ylonen's SSH from the system. Your error messages are inconsistent
with OpenSSH, probably because Ylonen SSH is ahead of OpenSSH in your
PATH.

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