Re: scp requieres scp1?

From: Lucas Grijander (oiulkj2002@yahoo.es)
Date: 02/11/02 

From: Lucas Grijander <oiulkj2002@yahoo.es>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:42:49 +0100

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:27:16 +0100, Vic Abell wrote:

> Lucas Grijander <oiulkj2002@yahoo.es> writes:
>
>> I have OpenSSH 2.9p2 installed. When I try to do an scp to a host
>>running Secure Shell 2.4.0 I have the error:
>
>>scp: warning: Executing scp1 compatibility. scp: FATAL: Executing ssh1
>>in compatibility mode failed (Check that scp1 is in your PATH).
>
>> But the server has only ssh2, not ssh1.
>
>> What's the problem?
>
> Read the scp(1) man page. It says:
>
> "It uses ssh(1) for data transfer, and uses the same authentication
> and provides the same security as ssh(1)."
>
        I though that the ssh(1) means tha it is related with ssh man page in
section 1, not that you have to ssh1 :(

> If the server doesn't support SSH1, it doesn't support scp.
>
> Try using an SSH2 shell and redirections:
>
> $ ssh SSH2_host "> out" < in

        If this is right, I don't understand why you have to use ssh1 to use
scp. Secure Shell can use scp2 with ssh2. I don't want to use ssh1
because it is known to have some securitye problems.