Bug 274 - scp fails if target account has echo "somestuff" as last line in .profile
Summary: scp fails if target account has echo "somestuff" as last line in .profile
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: scp (show other bugs)
Version: -current
Hardware: Other Other
: P2 normal
Assignee: OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list
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Reported: 2002-06-13 01:34 AEST by tai
Modified: 2004-04-14 12:24 AEST (History)
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Description tai 2002-06-13 01:34:59 AEST 
Trying to scp from pscp (v 0.49) on windows and openssh 3.1p1 on linux 2.2.16 to
openssh 3.2.3p1 on linux 2.4.17.  Shell is /bin/bash.  If last line of .profile
in account echo's something 'echo "stuff"', scp fails.  Removing the echo line,
scp succeeds.  This bug does not exist if the target machine is running openbsd
2.9 with the native version of ssh.  Tried it with both /bin/sh and /bin/bash.

-Tai
Comment 1 Markus Friedl 2002-06-13 04:21:19 AEST 
so your .profile is broken. you're not supposed to do this
for non-interactive session.
Comment 2 Jim Knoble 2002-06-13 08:12:28 AEST 
It shouldn't matter if ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile) echos anything. That file
should only be read for a login session.  For scp, ~/.profile shouldn't be read,
and scp should go on happily with life.

Perhaps your setup reads ~/.profile from ~/.bashrc or ~/.kshrc?  If a non-login
session has shell startup files that print anything on stdout or stderr, then
you create problems for scp.
Comment 3 Kevin Steves 2002-07-18 16:07:48 AEST 
can't put anything into RCP stream.
closing.
Comment 4 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:18 AEST 
Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED