scp with openssh on the server side and $PATH.

Phil Karn karn at ka9q.ampr.org
Sat Dec 11 06:35:01 EST 1999


>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

I worked around this problem by doing

ln -s /usr/local/bin/scp /usr/bin

Perhaps not the most elegant fix, since most people probably expect
that when they do a ssh remote execution, they'll get the same PATH
they'd get if they logged in. Dunno how to do that without rereading
the user's profile each time, though.

--Phil





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