On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:35:39AM -0400, Stirling Westrup wrote: > I've managed to fix my last problem (libc207 had somehow become > corrupted...), and am now stuck on another one: > > I've set up dropbear on my firewall and I am using PuTTY to communicate with > it from my WinXP box. This part of things is working fine. Now I would like > to use pscp to copy some files from my winbox to the firewall, but this is > the response I always get: > > C:\>pscp test.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test.txt > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Fatal: Server refused to start a shell/command > > Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this? Its not > mentioned in pscp's documentation and dropbear doesn't seem to have any.
It seems you've found a bug in Dropbear. pscp is trying to use sftp first, which fails because Dropbear has been compiled without sftp support. pscp is then retrying with scp, however Dropbear has a bug where only the first request per session is recognised - it should be only recognising the first _successful_ request per session. I've made a patch which fixes the issue, however I don't have a build environment for LEAF(-uclibc) handy. I've attached it if someone wants to build an updated package for LEAF. I'll include this fix in my next release. In the meantime, using a different scp client such as WinSCP should probably work, though you might need to force it not to try sftp. Thanks for the report, apologies for the inconvenience. Cheers, Matt ... The list wouldn't let me send a patch, so I've put it at http://matt.ucc.asn.au/fixed-pscp.patch Dropbear Developer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
