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Tips On Secure File Transfers Using SCP Through Gateways

Calendar Apr 11, 2002 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Quick summary on some scp tricks. "Recall that the command: "$ scp ... S:file ..." actually runs ssh in a subprocess to connect to S and invoke a remote scp server. Now that we've gotten ssh working from client C . . . Quick summary on some scp tricks. "Recall that the command: "$ scp ... S:file ..." actually runs ssh in a subprocess to connect to S and invoke a remote scp server. Now that we've gotten ssh working from client C to server S, you'd expect that scp would work between these machines with no further effort. Well, it almost does, but it wouldn't be software if there weren't a couple of small problems to work around:
  • Problems invoking the ssh subprocess, due to the forced command
  • Authentication difficulties due to lack of a tty