[scponly] Scponly and denied request

[Roland Lammel]

Things to try...

- is scp working without scponly
- is sftp working (just use sftp instead of scp)
- is the file readable
- is the scp binary in the path (if chrooted)

Just my 2 cents, good luck

+rl

mike.miller at bmg.com wrote:
> I've seen this problem listed a few times on the mailing lists, but haven't
> seen any solutions posted.
> 
> I am running scponly v3.8 installed via ports on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE.
> 
> I set the user's shell to "/usr/local/bin/scponly" and have added
> "/usr/local/bin/scponly" to the /etc/shells file as well. I've set the
> debuglevel to 2. I get this message when trying to copy a file to or from
> the machine:
> 
> 
>> scp user at host:/usr/home/user/test.pl ./
> 
> Password:
> [36830]: 3 arguments in total.
> [36830]:        arg 0 is scponly
> [36830]:        arg 1 is -c
> [36830]:        arg 2 is scp -f /usr/home/user/test.pl
> [36830]: opened log at LOG_AUTHPRIV, opts 0x00000029
> [36830]: retrieved home directory of "/usr/home/user" for user "user"
> [36830]: setting uid to 1000
> [36830]: processing request: "scp -f /usr/home/user/test.pl"
> 
> [36830]: denied request: scp -f /usr/home/user/test.pl [username:
> user(1000), IP/port: 192.168.11.13 2354 22]
> 
> 
> Does anyone have a solution for this or can point out where else to look? 
> 

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