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Re: ITP: sftp



On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, David Jack Olrik wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:00:57PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> 
> > gorgo@thunderchild:/tmp/hsftp-1.5$ ./hsftp lutra
> > Warning: Server lies about size of server host key: actual size is 1023 bits vs. announced 1024.
> > ** ERROR **: Could not get remote home directory.
> > gorgo@thunderchild:/tmp/hsftp-1.5$ ./hsftp localhost
> > 
> > and it hangs here...
> 
> This is probable a bug in SSH.
> 
> The non-free SSH's ssh-keygen once had a bug which caused it to
> occasionally generate RSA keys which had their Most Significant Bit
> unset. These keys are beeing advertised as being full-length, but are
> actually one bit shorter...
> 
> Upgrade ssh and regenerate your keys. That should fix it!

Nope, first, this is a problem in openssh, not ssh, second hsftp should
work nonetheless, just as everything else works

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