By the way, this issue is resolved, although I can't give you the reason. *sigh*.
All I can say is that it had something to do with /etc/hosts.equiv apparently. After I removed that file scp worked as expected. Unfortunately it still worked after I re-added the local machine name in that file. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.