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 -- Andreas Schneider a...@cryptomilk.org GPG-ID: 8DFF53E18F2ABC8D8F3C92237EE0FC4DCC014E3D