[techtalk] Fix for "Can't SCP from behind a firewall"

[marisa mack]

Alternatively, i think you can put something like:

Host *
UsePrivilegedPort No

in the config file in your .ssh directory. I could be way off-base,
it's still pretty early for me.

Marisa

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:30:55AM -0700, damask0 sed:
> Heya --
> 
>      Recently, my husband and I experienced problems trying to scp from
> behind our home firewall to our server (hosted elsewhere).  We
> discovered our firewall was denying the return packets (they were
> coming in on a privileged port).  My husband slightly modified the scp
> code to allow the return traffic to come in on a non-priviliged port. 
> He asked me to post his fix here so that anyone else with the same
> problem can find it, since he's not on any Linux mailing lists.
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