Hi everyone. I love this list, I've been learning a lot. And now I have a
question.
I inherited a couple of linux boxes from other people in my group. Both
are running Redhat, but I don't know what versions. Probably old, as they
were built more than a year ago. Is there a way to find out which version
of Redhat? I only know 'uname', which shows the kernel, right?
linuxbox1: built by a true wizard who is unfortunately no longer with the
company. kernel 2.0.34
linuxbox2: built by a very nice guy who doesn't write things down and
won't remember what he did 10 minutes after he did it. :) kernel 2.0.36
They are both webservers, and part of my job is to keep them updated with
current documents. I do not have ftp enabled on either of the boxes (and
am not permitted to), and have been using an ftp server as an intermediary,
but it is going to go away soon. I have been trying to use scp, but it
works only to linuxbox1 (SSH Version 1.3.5) and not linuxbox2 (SSH Version
OpenSSH-2.1)! >:|
Logged in to (yet another) box as root, when I try to scp a file to box 2,
I get this error:
:::-->scp testfile user@linuxbox2:/home/user/testfile
user@linuxbox2's password:
bash: scp: command not found
lost connection
If I try to scp it as root, I get:
:::-->scp testfile root@linuxbox2:/home/user/testfile
root@linuxbox2's password:
Permission denied.
lost connection
The 'command not found' thing looks like a path problem with the box I'm
scping from, but that doesn't really make sense because I'm root in both cases.
Someone in my office who knows a little unix suggested that it's something
with the version 2 SSH. I've looked at ssh_config on both boxes. There
are a few differences, but nothing obvious to me. Of course I'm looking
for something that says "Allow scp yes". :) The only one that seems to
have any bearing on the situation is the line "PasswordAuthentication yes",
which is commented out on box1, and not on box2.
I'm not seeing anything in the howtos, and all my web searches have turned
up dead ends. Can somebody point me in the right direction, assuming
you've actually made it all the way through my long post?
Thanks for your help and attention,
gabrielle
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