[Info-vax] Potential loss of data problem in sftp client in TCP/IP Services ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-03-13, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
> I tried to run a few quick tests on my 8.4 (Alpha) TCPIP 5-7 ECO3 system,
> but gave up after a number of different errors like "wrong SSH2 version".
> I never understood what was the problem... :-)
>

Was this during authentication ?

Regardless of which point this was at, that doesn't sound healthy...

Yet another problem I discovered during my early testing was that the
VMS sftp client would not switch to password mode after trying and
failing (as expected) to perform a certificate based authentication.

This was against one specific sftp server, but the Linux sftp client
had no problem with that server.

In the end, I had to force the use of password based authentication only
by using the option

	sftp -o "AllowedAuthentications password"

on the command line. You may have more luck using the same option.

Simon.

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