[3872] in testers
Re: sgi 8.2.9: scp/sshd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Aug 8 16:31:54 1998
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Aug 1998 11:00:49 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 16:31:49 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
(You can use bugs@mit.edu now that 8.2 has gone public.)
> It starts sourcing my dotfiles and stuff, rather than just giving me
> a connection and copying the file. I can copy the file to another
> host (a linux box without a hacked sshd) just fine
On the linux box without the hacked sshd, you can't read your dotfiles
on the other end because there's nothing to get you tokens. You'd
probably have the same problem if your homedir were world-readable.
I don't know how scp is supposed to avoid spurious output from one's
dotfiles. I think this has been a long-standing problem with scp and
rcp, and I don't know of any release-level workaround.
(I touch ~/.hushlogin, myself.)
