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SCP Error in pfSense

03/03/2018 homelab 9 Comments

This isn’t a homelab entry, per se. This is just a note to say the following:

If you’re trying to use scp to transfer a file to a pfSense host and it’s failing with the error “Illegal option -t” then you need to use the root account for the remote user in the scp command instead of the admin account you’d normally use for everything else in pfSense.

I’m posting this simply because I just spent far too long troubleshooting that error. Hopefully this gets indexed so that it is available to the greater Internet and no one else will spend that much time on it ever again.

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9 thoughts on “SCP Error in pfSense”

  1. Chris
    05/15/2018 at 05:03

    Hey thanks for writing down the scp error, it saved my day !!

    Reply
  2. Geovane
    05/16/2018 at 12:48

    Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  3. Tejas
    07/07/2019 at 13:43

    Thank you thank you thank you, you are an excellent human being

    Reply
  4. Bean Warring
    08/04/2019 at 06:48

    THANK YOU!
    What is “Illegal option -t” supposed to mean?
    Why not make a REAL error message…. “USE ROOT ACCOUNT, FOR SCP”
    Oh well, we can’t send everyone to the camps.

    Reply
  5. Fabio Bonanato
    11/08/2019 at 09:10

    THANK YOU!
    THANK YOU!
    THANK YOU!
    THANK YOU!

    Reply
  6. Bjoern Stappenbeck
    05/19/2020 at 08:17

    Thanks.. that really helped.

    Reply
  7. Jon
    08/10/2020 at 15:13

    And 2 years later your post is still helping people. Thanks

    Reply
  8. Nipuna
    11/25/2020 at 20:59

    Thank you so much!

    Reply
  9. MAMADY KOUROUMA
    12/31/2020 at 02:44

    Thank you sir for saving my day.

    Reply
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