I took the advice from this list and a website I found and tried to build Openssh after running: -with-default-path=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin It did not appear to fix my scp problem. I then gave the configure script a very cursory reading, and decided to try "--without-default-path". That is where the bug appears. Running just ./configure or ./configure with the default path option worked fine. Make ran without event. After running --without-default-path, the Makefile had no value at all set for $AR which broke the Makefile. (It is easily enough filled by manually changing "AR=" to "AR=ar", but it is annoying.) Any idea why this is broken, or why the --with-default-path=... doesn't let sshd find my /usr/local/bin/scp? Thanks for all the help. Andrew Sherrod