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[paul]

ok, here is an update on my confusion... 'paul' is my machine inside the 
firewall - I use mozilla to access the firewall's Secure shell window. 
 I tried the scp command below, and got a confusing message... a little 
more searching at the sourceforge email archive gave me a few more 
clues... I'm out of time tonight, I'll finish this task over the weekend.  
(the end result here is to get a VPN connection thru IPCOP)

root@ipcop~$ scp -v vanallp@paul:/home/vanallp/ip_masq_ipsec.o 
root@ipcop:/root/ip_masq_ipsec.o

Executing: /usr/bin/ssh -v -x -o'FallBackToRsh no' -n -l vanallp paul 
scp -v /home/vanallp/ip_masq_ipsec.o ' root@ipcop:/root/ip_masq_ipsec.o'
sh: /usr/bin/ssh/: No such file or directory

root@ipcop~$

SourceForge archived mail:

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:53:04PM +0100, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
 > Hi
 > 
 > > I've recently install IPCop 0.1.1 and noticed that the ssh client
 > > /usr/local/bin/ssh is no longer there. Without that scp (which is
 > > still present) no longer works, and I can no longer use scp to
 > > backup the configuration.
 > >
 > > Was it left out delibately ?
 > 
 > Actually, yes it was.  There shouldn't be too much client software on a
 > firewall.  But scp works just fine the other way around (from another
 > machine to IPCop).  I use it very regularly.
 > 
 > Kind regards,
 > 
 >        Mark Wormgoor
 
 Thanks, I can confirm that it works if you run the scp from the 
 remote machine. Which is probably also safer as it only needs 
 one ssh connection and one username/password pair.
 
 ps. Note for any else who's thinking of doing this: Do not scp the 
 "/dev" or "/proc" directories as you'll get into recursive loops.
 
 
 -- 
 John Edwards
 shade@cornerstonelinux.co.uk