Bug 274

Summary:	scp fails if target account has echo "somestuff" as last line in .profile
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	tai <tai>
Component:	scp	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other

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