conf/72901: [PATCH]: Prevent printing when doing an scp (printing breaks SCP).

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR conf/72901; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: wgrim at siue.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/72901: [PATCH]: Prevent printing when doing an scp (printing breaks SCP).
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:26:53 -0700

 On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:42:35PM -0500, William Michael Grim wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         72901
 > >Category:       conf
 > >Synopsis:       [PATCH]: Prevent printing when doing an scp (printing breaks SCP).
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 20 01:50:24 GMT 2004
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     William Michael Grim
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 i386
 > >Organization:
 > Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
 > >Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD siue.dnsalias.net 5.3-BETA7 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #3: Mon Oct 18 23:46:43 CDT 2004 root at siue.dnsalias.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBSD i386
 > 
 > 
 > >Description:
 > 	When a user tries to 'scp' to another machine that is outputting
 > 	fortunes, as bash does by default on FreeBSD, then scp will exit,
 > 	printing only the first line of output instead of copying files.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 	Have a host to which you are trying to scp print some lines to stdout
 > 	through .profile or .bashrc.
 
 Are you sure?  What is your sshd_config on that machine?
 
 Kris