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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Simon Clubley wrote 2012-03-13 11:21:
> 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.
>

In the 5.7 ECO3 releazase notes it says :

4.21.60 Data appears to be truncated on the remote end

    Problem:
    The SFTP and SCP utilities are not properly 'put'ing fixed
    record format files to non-VMS systems. The data appears to
    be truncated on the remote end.

    Solution:
    This problem is corrected in this release.

But I guess you have checked all rellevant relnotes, right?

Jan-Erik.