From: Dr. David Kirkby (drkirkby@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 20:30:15 EDT
The problem where I could securely copy files from a Sun to just about
any machine except a Dec Alpha has finally been resolved.
Several people on newsgroups suggested that I removed the ssh from the
Dec Alpha and replaced it by OpenSSH. Since all my other machines have
either OpenSSH or a variant of OpenSSH (as on my Sun Ultra 80), this
did not seem such a bad idea.
I was however suspicious of removing the ssh software subset from the
Dec Alpha, as setld -i shows it as 'Required' - only 4 of the 117
subsets are marked as required.
I installed OpenSSH on the Alpha, but this did not sure the problem.
This was because despite hte fact the OpenSSH variant of sshd was
running and not the Tru64 one, the scp client in /bin/scp was being
found before the OpenSSH one - /usr/local/bin/scp. Hence I renamed
/bin/scp to /bin/scp.orig and the problem went away.
Joseph Senulis, suggested the problem was likely to be the fact the
Sun was mis-configured and using the insecure ssh 1 protocol. One
protocol version 2 was configured in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the Sun.
So quite why the Alpha was looking for scp1 I don't know, but its now
okay.
Anyway, the problem is solved. Perhaps the solution was not the most
elegant one, but it works.
-- 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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