scp between windows and freebsd

Lee Mx lee_ver_mx at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 10 15:35:37 PST 2003




>From: "KURT BUFF" <kurtbuff at spro.net>
>To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Subject: scp between windows and freebsd
>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:50:01 -0700 (MST)
>
>All,
>
>I'm following the directions here:
>
>http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/postfix-exchange-users.html
>
>to improve the gateway to our Exchange box, and am stuck on a particular
>step.
>
>I just can't seem to make the Putty SCP work from my workstation.
>
>I used Putty's window copy function to paste into vi to create the .pub
>file, then used the command line:

I've had better luck with

http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/download.php

In fact it's nice enough that I'd like to for my users to have something 
similar for their FreeBSD desktops, buy YMMV;-)

good luck,

>
>"ssh-keygen -i -f /tmp/exchupdate.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2"
>
>on the FreeBSD box per the instructions to convert to an openssh key,
>then use the following command line to do the copy:
>
>"pscp -2 -i exchupdate.ppk exchusers.txt root at servername:/etc"
>
>but I keep getting the following two messages on the Windows box:
>
>"Authenticating with public key "postfix update users key"
>"Fatal: Lost connection"
>
>and the following on the FreeBSD box:
>
>"server2 sshd[36802]: fatal: monitor_read: unsupported request:"
>
>This, even though I've made certain to enter a edit the public key to
>add a comment (using vi) into the public key on the FreeBSD box.
>
>I've done some googling, and read some man pages, but can't seem to find
>out what the heck I'm doing wrong. I've put the authorized_keys2 file
>into /etc/ssh, /root/.ssh and even /root hoping that it was simply a
>matter of location, but still no go.
>
>Help?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kurt
>
>
>
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