perhaps the authorized_keys file is broken (bad linebreaks)?
-m
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 05:44:16PM -0400, Alexy Khrabrov
wrote:>
> I have built the freshest CVS versions of openssh and still observe
> the same strangest behavior I encountered when trying to scp from a SuSE
> 7.2 to RedHat 7.1 system -- I built openssl-0.9.6e on RedHat as well--
> and updated a lot of stuff; but still:
>
> ssh succeeds, and scp fails, leaving the following message in
> /var/log/secure:
> Aug 5 11:50:44 pdb-pc-6 sshd[4609]: fatal: buffer_get: trying to get more
bytes than in buffer
>
> I compiled --with-tcp-wrappers and the client is allowed (obviously,
> as ssh succeeds). Local machines on the same subnet can scp without
> any problems. Same thing happens with sftp -- both ask for password,
> then hang. If the key is kept by an agent, scp simply quits, saying
> that the server closed the connection.
>
> I never observed that before, my SuSE box works like a clock in both
> client/server modes. What can be possibly broken on the Red Hat box?
>
> Cheers,
> Alexy
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