Re: sftp - Received message too long 1265200236

Mark Leisher wrote:
> OpenSSH 3.9p1 and OpenSSL 0.9.7e installed on all boxes.
>
> I know, this has been addressed many times before, but it is still 
> happening on our Solaris boxes.
>
> Our Solaris 5.[89] systems with all shell rc files removed from /etc/ 
> still respond with "Received message too long Kill (what 1265200236 
> turns out to be)" when sftp'ing to these machines.
>
> This happens with a user account that is an empty directory and happens 
> if the user account has bash, ksh, or tcsh as a shell. It doesn't happen 
> if /bin/sh is the shell. Doing "ssh user@machine /bin/true" produces no 
> output.

I suspect that you're missing a shared library such as libcrypto from the 
standard library search path, and that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set OK in 
/bin/sh's startup files but not the ones of the other shells.

Try:
$ ssh yourserver /usr/local/bin/scp -v
and see what the entire error message is.

Also look at the Solaris crle(1) man page and see what it's set to on the 
server.

OpenSSH's configure should use the -R linker flag to override this so it 
should not be a problem however configure's behaviour can be changed with 
the --without-rpath option.

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