From 811527db4fcb81534664f876beede7d84b6e307f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jacob Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:07:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] faq-missing-slash: the missing-slash-in-PSFTP OpenSSH bug keeps coming up. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@4568 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- doc/faq.but | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index e2d221e2..adf98151 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.79 2004/09/09 10:37:17 jacob Exp $ +\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.80 2004/09/22 14:07:35 jacob Exp $ \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ @@ -888,6 +888,29 @@ Windows XP Service Pack (but probably not before). means you need to use non-\cw{127.0.0.1} addresses to forward Terminal Services in the first place.) +\S{faq-missing-slash}{Question} PSFTP commands seem to be missing a +directory separator (slash). + +Some people have reported the following incorrect behaviour with +PSFTP: + +\c psftp> pwd +\e iii +\c Remote directory is /dir1/dir2 +\c psftp> get filename.ext +\e iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii +\c /dir1/dir2filename.ext: no such file or directory + +This is not a bug in PSFTP. There is a known bug in some versions of +portable OpenSSH +(\W{http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697}{bug 697}) that +causes these symptoms; it appears to have been introduced around +3.7.x. It manifests only on certain platforms (AIX is what has been +reported to us). + +There is a patch for OpenSSH attached to that bug; it's also fixed in +recent versions of portable OpenSSH (from around 3.8). + \H{faq-secure} Security questions \S{faq-publicpc}{Question} Is it safe for me to download PuTTY and -- 2.11.0