On Saturday, 25 April 2020 22:02:09 CEST Yash Katta wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Yash,
> My name is Yash Katta. In my current project. I am working on ssh_scp APIs
> (more precisely ssh_scp_push_file, ssh_scp_write, ssh_scp_push_directory
> APIs).
> When I interrupt the scp communication on my Ubuntu 18.04 using a command
>
> *$ sudo iptables -I INPUT -s [ip_address] -j DROP*
>
> The process completely stops for an unknown time period.
>
> So I want to ask, how to set a timeout for this task. so that if I didn't
> get the response, it will wait for some time and on timeout, it returns
> some SSH_ERROR and proceeds further.
SCP is one of the worst protocols on planet earth and should be removed as
soon as possible. Please use SFTP instead!
Andreas
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