SCP/SFTP login name issues

i cant understad.

please replace the X for another example please the ftp X are the same of you domain?

put example1.com    example2.com

Did you protect the entire sequence from local expansion by enclosing it in single quotes?

Wow - this is a fun one:)...and is not standard between different versions of scp either.

For Cygwin, this works:

$ scp me@cb.ws'@192.168.0.100:/home/me\@cb.ws/test.txt' .
me@cb.ws@192.168.0.100's password:
test.txt                                      100%   18     0.0KB/s   00:00

Still working on linux and windows scp.exe

pjedmond,

It warms my heart to see that you are having so much fun with this one..... ;)

Cheers,

QWade

OK - it is possible on linux...but I've tried all sorts of wierd and wonderful char combinations, and I cannot solve the problem that you had with the @ directly......however......this works!!!!!!!!!!!1111:

[root@Girton root]# su me@cb.ws
[me@cb.ws@Girton root]$ cd ~
[me@cb.ws@Girton me@cb.ws]$ scp '192.168.0.100:/home/me\@cb.ws/test.txt' test2.txt
me@cb.ws@192.168.0.100's password:
test.txt             100% |**************************************|    18       00:00
[me@cb.ws@Girton me@cb.ws]$

Create a user called me@cb.ws (where me@cb.ws is your usernam). Become that user and then scp, WITHOUT giving the username. scp will take the curent username that you are. This works on RedHat 8.0

...and now to have a look at Windows scp.exe......or shall I go to bed?

What operating system are you trying to scp from? (If windows, you have a Cygwin solution above, or linux, this one works). If you find that you still have a problem post the exact version of linux/windows that you are using, and I'll try a few more ideas.

Ha ha ha ha - windows! - No problems at all!

C:\downloads>pscpx86.exe me@cb.ws@192.168.0.100:/home/me\@cb.ws/test.txt .
me@cb.ws@192.168.0.100's password:
test.txt                  |          0 kB |   0.0 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%

C:\downloads>


Yet again no security checking in Windows??? This pscpx86.exe is from the putty website:)

...or perhaps I ought to give the putty people some credit for thinking about this problem more clearly than the ssh people?????

pjedmond,

You can go to bed..... I am attempting this little feat from a RH box, so your fake out via a username will work for me.

Cheers,

QWade

...which is obviously much neater than the creation of seperate account to login to your remote account.
The issue has been noted by the ssh team and may be considered as a future extension to the standard concerned.

I guess that this question can now be closed, as I've got nothing more that I can add:)

pjedmond,

Thanks for helping out with this.... Next time, I will go to the source (ssh team) like you did.... who knew that they would be so responsive....

I have set the ~/.ssh/config file up, and it is working now....

Cheers,

QWade

Admins,

Please close this question out and award pjedmond th 125 points and add another 100 for going above and beyond....

QWade

Ideally, you should not be approaching the team directly as many issues that get thrown at them are not real problems. This wastes significant amounts of their time and are often ignored. However, this was a particularly interesting situation with discrepancies that I thought was worth highlighting, as I know of a number of companies that provide usernames that consist of an @ sign.

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