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Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 10:22:19 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: sftp exits with error NULL pointer given as argument
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On May 26 10:33, Pavel Rosenboim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm connecting with sftp from my work computer running Win2k SP4 to my 
> home computer running Fedora Core 3. My ssh config file turns on port 
> forwarding for several ports. In this configuration sftp exits with 
> error: "xfree: NULL pointer given as argument". When port forwarding is 
> turned off sftp connects without problems. Also this happens only with 
> sftp not ssh. The problem started after upgrading openssh package to 
> version 4.0p1 and doesn't happen with previous releases. I also tried to 
> connect from Fedora Core 4 test3 machine which also uses openssh 4.0p1 
> with same configuration and it does work.
> 
> Output of sftp -v -v -v -v -v pavel AT pashar DOT dyndns DOT org
> Connecting to pashar.dyndns.org...
> OpenSSH_4.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
> debug1: Reading configuration data /home/pavelr/.ssh/config
> debug1: Applying options for pashar.dyndns.org
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> xfree: NULL pointer given as argument
> Connection closed

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Any changes made to /etc/ssh_config?


Corinna

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