Hi, Thanks for replying. Can you give pointers to, how to use a timeout with sftp? Or which libssh APIs we can use to achieve it?
Thanks, Yash On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:07 PM Andreas Schneider <a...@cryptomilk.org> wrote: > On Saturday, 25 April 2020 22:02:09 CEST Yash Katta wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Yash, > > > My name is Yash Katta. In my current project. I am working on ssh_scp > APIs > > (more precisely ssh_scp_push_file, ssh_scp_write, ssh_scp_push_directory > > APIs). > > When I interrupt the scp communication on my Ubuntu 18.04 using a command > > > > *$ sudo iptables -I INPUT -s [ip_address] -j DROP* > > > > The process completely stops for an unknown time period. > > > > So I want to ask, how to set a timeout for this task. so that if I didn't > > get the response, it will wait for some time and on timeout, it returns > > some SSH_ERROR and proceeds further. > > SCP is one of the worst protocols on planet earth and should be removed as > soon as possible. Please use SFTP instead! > > > > Andreas > > -- > Andreas Schneider a...@cryptomilk.org > GPG-ID: 8DFF53E18F2ABC8D8F3C92237EE0FC4DCC014E3D > > >
