scp/sftp weirdness

[Damien Miller]

I told you: your sftp and scp binaries are using the wrong ssh binary.

sftp and ssh set a number of options when invoking ssh. PermitLocalCommand
is one of them.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Erich Weiler wrote:

> Also the "PermitLocalCommand" option doesn't appear anywhere in my ssh_config
> or sshd_config...  What could be specifying that option I wonder?
> 
> ciao, erich
> 
> Erich Weiler wrote:
> > As a matter of fact I do have 2 versions of OpenSSH lurking around (but no
> > Sun SSH, I didn't install it).  Maybe the new sftp is trying to reference
> > the old ssh?  I did a 'which ssh' and 'which sftp' and they are both in the
> > right place...  Does sftp reference anything else but ssh?  sftp-server
> > maybe?
> > 
> > The reason I have 2 versions is that my older Solaris clients are using the
> > old one and the newer Solaris 10 boxes are (trying to) using the new one.
> > 
> > ciao, erich
> > 
> > Damien Miller wrote:
> > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Erich Weiler wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi ya'll-
> > > > 
> > > > I'm having this weird problem with the new version of OpenSSH compiled
> > > > on Solaris, version 4.3p2.  SSH and SSHD work fine, all is well.  But
> > > > when I try to sftp or scp something I get this:
> > > > 
> > > > % sftp bullitt
> > > > Connecting to bullitt...
> > > > command-line: line 0: Bad configuration option: PermitLocalCommand
> > > > Connection closed
> > > 
> > > It looks like you have your scp/sftp out of sync with your ssh binary.
> > > Perhaps OpenSSH scp/sftp are picking up Solaris' default ssh binary
> > > because it is first in your $PATH?
> > > 
> > > -d
> > 
> 
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> Erich Weiler
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> School of Engineering
> University of California Santa Cruz
> weiler at soe.ucsc.edu
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