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Here is a patch to scp made against openssh-2.1.1p2 that adds the -L option to scp. The -L option tells scp to use nonprivilaged ports (by passing ssh the -P option). The non-free ssh's scp has this option, and it is required under some firewall setups (like mine) for scp to function. Please let me know if there are any problems with this patch, or if there is anything I can do to help get this feature into the offic...

Hi folks, I have the that I must copy some through a Plag-Gateway of a Firewall over 2 host. A secure connection via "ssh - t hosta ssh -t hostb" works fine, but does this work with scp too? Icould not realize it either with scp (1.2.27 of ssh.com) or scp from openssh. Do you have any ideas? Thanks Stephan

...of the directory names it receives. It is passed the name and the names length through dentry->d_name.name and dentry->d_name.len respectively. Later on it memcpy()'s the name into a 256 byte buffer, using dentry->d_name.len as the number of bytes to copy, without checking its size. A nonprivilaged user may attempt to cd to a directory name exceeding 255 characters. This overwrites memory, probably the kernel stack and anything beyond it, and causes kernel errors or makes the machine reboot. Overview of Automount drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Feb...