scp/sftp user failures on HP-UX

[Kevin Steves]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Kennie Cruz wrote:
:I have an HP server with OpenSSH 3.1p1, on which the scp and sftp are
:giving strange failures. For example: scp, ssh and sftp works fine only for
:the root user. But for a normal user account only the ssh part works, the
:scp and sftp fails to connect.
:
:I am running UX 11i.

what are the "strange failures"?  a guess is a permission problem, but
need more data.