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sourav c.
Asked: 2013-11-02 22:46:04 +0800 CST

sftp connection failed, strange error messsage

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While I am trying to connect to a remote system from terminal using sftp

sftp [email protected]

connection is failing and a message coming

Received message too long < some long number >

I connect that machine frequently, can not understand what is causing the problem.

networking

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Maybe you have to do with a message (like welcoming message) popping up after the successful login. sftp fails to connect in this situation (see http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#2.9).

    Try to ssh in the same server and see if any message pops up. It should be started from one of these file ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile,~/.bashrc, or other shell initialization file. You can then comment out the respective line from there.

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