On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:11:11PM +0100, Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>    What does NetBSD's scp have in common with PuTTY's pscp?
> 
>    A long time ago (something like two years ago) I could use pscp to
> copy files to/from my university account. Suddenly, it stopped working.
> pscp asks for my password, I enter it, and then it just sets there..
> Doing nothing. Until I kill it manually. WinSCP works fine, though.
> 
>    Now I have started migrating to my NetBSD system as my primary
> desktop, and I thought that since I'm no longer using pscp, I would be
> able to copy stuff easily from the command line again.
> 
>    But to my big surprise, it doesn't work in NetBSD either(!). When I
> run scp to copy something, it sits there for a while, prints a fortune,
> and then exits -- no files transferred.
> 
>    Again, WinSCP on my Windows-system works, and it should be noted that
> I'm not having any problems with (p)scp (Windows or NetBSD) against any
> other sites.
> 
>    Does anyone recognize this behavior? Was it something I did, or could
> the problem be in the Solaris system at the university?

You says it prints a fortune, this may be a hint.
Does
ssh <solaris box> echo 
prints anything ? It should not.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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