scp with openssh on the server side and $PATH.

[Marc Haber]

Hi!

When I try to use scp from or to a machine that runs openssh-1.2pre16
on Debian Linux, I keep getting the error message "scp: command not
found". Executing  "ssh this-host echo \$PATH" yields
"/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:" which might be set in config.h.

sshd is installed to /usr/local/stow/openssh-1.2pre16/sbin, scp to
/usr/local/stow/openssh-1.2pre16/bin; both programs are then symlinked
so that they can be found in /usr/local/[s]bin.

I changed config.h to say

|#ifndef _PATH_STDPATH
|# define _PATH_STDPATH "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:"
|#endif

recompiled and reinstalled, but I still keep getting the same,
incorrect $PATH. What am I doing wrong?

btw, it would be easier to verify the correct sshd being executed if

|mh at torres[6/504]:~/devel/userspace/openssh-1.2pre12$ ./sshd -v
|./sshd: invalid option -- v
|sshd version OpenSSH-1.2
|Usage: sshd [options]
Usage message snipped
|mh at torres[7/505]:~/devel/userspace/openssh-1.2pre12$

would show the pre-version stamp as well.

Greetings
Marc

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