Re: scp between two remote machines

From: Richard Whalen (WhalenR_at_process.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:50:17 -0500

"Jay Walker" <snowy_hedwig@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:GFz%b.28035$Qg7.26624@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> scp
> scp [[user@]host1:]filename1... [[user@]host2:]filename2
> Scp copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh for data
transfer,
> and uses the same authentication and provides the same security as ssh.
>
> I am using Redhat 8.0 with openssl 3.5pl installed. I can't seem to use
scp
> to copy files between two remote hosts. A quick debug showed that the
> connection to the first remote machine was fine, but failed to connect on
> the second host (I can connect to the second host outside of the scp).
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

I've seen some implementations of scp attempt to optimize the network
traffic by sending the scp command to the source system to copy it to the
destination system. i.e. the source system would execute the following
command:

scp filename1 user@host2:filename2

While this would reduce network traffic, there are problems if user@host1
can't authenticate itself to user@host2.

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