I run current Fedora releases on my home office boxes, but at my "real" 
office (i.e., where I *don't* own the machines) it is still mandated 
that 2 particular machines will stay with FC17.  (This is a BIG 
improvement because I was only able to upgrade the first one (machine 
"A") a week or so ago. The other (machine B) is still running FC14 and 
will stay that way until the next "maintenance weekend" some time in 
October.

I need to set things up so that cron jobs can run the scp commands 
without anyone having to key in a password. But since the upgrade, 
I've been having a problem getting scp to work in both directions on 
the FC17 machine.

First I generated the two necessary id_dsa and id_dsa.pub files (ssh-
keygen -t dsa on both machines), and then I installed the id_dsa.pub 
key from machine A into the authorized_keys file on machine B and vice-
versa (in the appropriate ~/.ssh directories).

From a terminal, scp works fine in both directions.  However...

From machine A (FC17) I can successfully do both of these:

        scp <FILENAME> <machine B>:/PATH (copy to machine A from B)

        scp <machine B>:/PATH/<FILENAME> (copy to machine B from A)

BUT from machine B (FC14), both of these fail:

        scp <FILENAME> <machine A>:/PATH

        scp <machine A>:/PATH/<FILENAME>

As I had this working when both machines were running FC14, I suspect 
that there's something I'm overlooking, and I haven't found it yet.

I've been working at this for about a week with no results, and 
if anyone has any pointers, suggestions, or a URL or two, I'd really 
appreciate any help you can give me (yes I've read the manuals and 
looked it up on line - but so far without figuring out a solution). 

- Thanks,
   wwa

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