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When I try to use sftp or scp2, I get a message like this: Received message too long (or “Bad packet length”) 1416586337 and the connection fails. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017connection fails message received scp2 SFTP Try wrong

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When I try to use sftp or scp2, I get a message like this: Received message too long (or “Bad packet length”) 1416586337 and the connection fails. Whats wrong?

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sftp and scp2 both actually work by running ssh in a subprocess, to connect to the remote host and run the file-transfer server (usually named sftp-server).