You can't connect to another box with ssh using the root account. It's a security feature. The default is to use your current username, which would be root in this instance. A way to get around this is with the -l option and then su on the remote box. So, #ssh -l user_name_to_login_as remotehost I don't use scp directly, but I use sftp, and it supports the -l option also.
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > I'm curious if this is a bug or a config option or am i smoking crack. I > have 2 identical (more or less) potato systems, and wanted to scp a tar > file to the other machine. the command was: > > # scp /tmp/filename.tar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp > > I get > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > lost connection > > when i exit back out of the su, it connects fine. since i am not "logging > in" as root i don't understand why it would(if it is) drop the > connection. i checked the sshd_config and it looked ok ..i don't have > identd running on either host, maybe SSH is telling the remote system what > user i am? somehow i would think that would be bad if it was. > > or maybe my crackpipe needs cleaning .. > > any ideas?? > > thanks! > > nate > > ::: > http://www.aphroland.org/ > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 5:55pm up 88 days, 3:13, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.
