Scp to pfsense not working

pfsensescp

When ever I try to scp a file from pfsense I get back what appears to be the help for pfsense's scp:

scp admin@fw:/tmp/test /tmp/
usage: scp [-12346BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
           [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
           [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2

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You need to use root@ instead of admin@.

P.S.: Yes I know that ssh works fine with admin. No I'm not joking.

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DEPRECATED: Please note the following answer is out of date. rssh is no longer maintained and is no longer a secure method.

rssh shell (http://pizzashack.org/rssh/) is designed for precisely this purpose.

Since RHEL/CentOS 5.2 doesn't include a package for rssh, you might look here to obtain an RPM: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rssh/

To use it just set it as a shell for a new user like this:

useradd -m -d /home/scpuser1 -s /usr/bin/rssh scpuser1
passwd scpuser1

..or change the shell for an existing one like this:

chsh -s /usr/bin/rssh scpuser1

..and edit /etc/rssh.conf to configure rssh shell - especially uncomment allowscp line to enable SCP access for all rssh users.

(You may also want to use chroot to keep the users contained in their homes but that's another story.)

Ssh – How to manage ssh keys to add a second user

You need to login using the putty on the windows machine and exit the .ssh/authorized_keys file and add the key that you generated on the mac to the file.

Do not run the command

scp -2 -P 50022 -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub newuser@111.222.333.444:

That will over write the existing key on the server, and it will not work either as the server only accepts key logins.

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