Sounds like scp on the remote machine is not in a directory in your path. Add
an entry to ~/.ssh/environment, or ~/.ssh2/environment for PATH that includes
the dir scp is in. If environment exists, make sure PATH is in it and has the
proper dir. Don't use export or anything else, just the VAR=VALUE, like:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:DIR/TO/SCP
sshd will loads these values before starting a shell or executing any local
commands. This also works if the remote machine mis-defines location of xauth
for X11 forwarding.
If you want to make sure the PATH is right just run:
localhost$ ssh remotehost env
and look for the value of PATH. You could even run 'which scp' to make sure it
is found...
Hope this helps.
--Dave
P.S. If you have any per shell scripts run (ENV is set for KSH), make sure it
doesn't remove the scp program dir location. FOr csh make sure .cshrc doesn't
remove it either.
>From: "Silvia Nieto Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Sami Lehtinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Problem with scp
>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:09:21 +0100
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> Hello:
>
> Another error appears now, I have used other format to copy:
>
> % scp path/file user@remote:remote_path/remote_file
>
> But when I execute it, this messages appears when I introduce the password:
>
> ksh: scp: not found
> lost connection
>
> How can I resolve?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Sami Lehtinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Silvia Nieto Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 4:36 AM
>Subject: Problem with scp
>
>
>> Silvia Nieto Santos, on January 2. 2001, wrote:
>> : Hello:
>> :
>> : I have a problem with scp, when I execute:
>> :
>> : scp user@host:path/file user@remote:path/file
>> :
>> : When I introduce the password this messages appears:
>> :
>> : You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase.
>> : lost connection
>> :
>> : How can I resolve?
>> :
>> : Thank you very much.
>>
>> Is either of "host" or "remote" your local account (the machine where
>> you run scp)? This is probably also a bug in the tty handling code,
>> but you could work around it by only connecting remotely to one
>> machine (it is faster too, as the way you currently use it, scp will
>> connect to both hosts with ssh2, and not use local file access at
>> all).
>>
>> For example, lets suppose "host" is the local host. Then you could use
>> scp as follows:
>>
>> % scp path/file user@remote:remote_path/remote_file
>> (to copy a local file to the remote)
>> or
>>
>> % scp user@remote:remote_path/remote_file path/file
>> (vice versa)
>>
>> --
>> [[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sami J. Lehtinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> [work:+358 9 85657425][gsm:+358 50 5170 258][http://www.iki.fi/~sjl]
>> [SSH Communications Security Corp http://www.ssh.com/]
>>
>
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