On 15:42 23 Jan 2003, Keith Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On 21 Jan 2003, Jeff Bearer wrote:
| > I want to copy a file from host A to host B while on host C. Host C uses
| > public key auth to login to A and B.
| >
| > But when I try this:
| > hostC #> scp hostA:/tmp/file hostB:/tmp/file
| >
| > I get this:
| > Host key verification failed.
| > lost connection
| >
| > But If I do this:
| > hostC #> scp hostA:/tmp/file ./; scp ./file hostB:/tmp/file
| >
| > It works. Can somebody clue me in to what's the problem?
|
|
| Though some of the other replies seem to indicate it will work, I have
| never been sucessfully at it either. My limited research suggests that
| ssh was not designed to support this arrangement. My alternative would be
| to ssh tunnel from hostA to hostB thru hostC.
If you have an ssh-agent and forward it you can probably go:
ssh hostA scp /tmp/file hostB:/tmp/file
i.e. ssh to hostA and tell it to scp directly to hostB; the
forwarded connection will supply the right credentials.
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