Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:03:49 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> Subject: Re: freesd boxes refusing scp and sftp? Message-ID: <200606041703.55446.benlutz@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <200606040945.08702.jhorne@dfwlp.com> References: <200606040945.08702.jhorne@dfwlp.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sunday 04 June 2006 16:45, Jonathan Horne wrote: > my freebsd boxes are refusing connections (or erroring them out, im not > sure which it is at this time). when i try to scp a file or make a sftp > connection, this is what i get: > > [jhorne@zeus ~]$ sftp tyche > Connecting to tyche... > Password: > Received message too long 538976288 > [jhorne@zeus ~]$ > > i get something similar (yet equally aggravating!) when i scp too. can > someone point me in the right direction here? For scp and sftp to work, the machine must not print anything at login time. So if you, say, have your machine print a fortune cookie at login, you need to disable that. Cheers Benjamin [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEgvZbgShs4qbRdeQRAnnMAKCKQPnVILgng6bHnj/P12pZfdKs2ACeMV1P e2S14KwS/LBcNUln+eSb2XE= =Cnpa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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