From austin.green at orcon.net.nz  Tue Jan  7 03:53:03 2025
From: austin.green at orcon.net.nz (Austin Green)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:53:03 +1300
Subject: Problem reading files on AIX
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Hi,

My Windows app using libssh2 works fine accessing *nix hosts, except when connected to an AIX platform.  Stepping through all the files in a directory, it tries to read the first 64 bytes of each.  This works fine on other *nix flavours, but on AIX the call to libssh2_scp_recv2 returns NULL, then libssh2_session_last_error returns 'Channel open failure (administratively prohibited)'. This happens only for *some* files, not all of them.  They have appropriate permissions (I can log on to the AIX system via PuTTY and read the same files no problem).

I know AIX is a bit of a strange beast, and one I'm unfamiliar with, so I'd be most grateful for any hints on how to diagnose this.

Regards,
Austin.