[Gllug] scp / sftp comparison

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Wed Mar 20 16:22:30 UTC 2002


On 20/03/02, 13:55:45, Robert McKay <robert at mckay.com> wrote regarding RE: 
[Gllug] scp / sftp comparison :


> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> > On 20/03/02, 15:23:30, "Paul Brazier" <pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk> wrote
> > regarding RE: [Gllug] scp / sftp comparison :
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hmm, that's strange, I've been using the standard commandline scp on
> > > Debian unstable and it's been giving me error messages (can't remember
> > > what offhand) until I set the shell back. I guess there must be
> > > something else wrong with my setup.
> >
> > There has to be an account on the remote machine but it can be locked.
> > Your PAM settings can affect this.

> ssh just needs to be able to run the sftp-server binary via the user's
> /etc/passwd shell.

Not for scp it doesn't, which is what he is asking about in this case.

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Bruce

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