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Dork Guest

Error skipping startup message.

2005-05-10 00:30

I get this error:

Error skipping startup message. Your shell is probably incompatible with the application (Bash is recommended).

Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit status 0.

I then noticed my user was an FTP user and did not have shell access. This took me a while to figure out and I am reporting this here for users in the future. I may still have issues because I have to wait until shell access is granted before I can test this again.

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Guest

Re: Error skipping startup message.

2007-09-03 17:30

My problem was that the user password on Linux machine expired (I have it set up to expire on 90 days) and the shell didn't start.

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: Error skipping startup message.

2008-10-31

See Error skipping startup message. Your shell is probably incompatible with the application (BASH is recommended)

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Guest3 Guest

Error skipping startup message.

2011-09-23 20:43

For:

Error skipping startup message. Your shell is probably incompatible with the application (BASH is recommended).

I found that our problem was the user was using SCP and sudo, and that sshd required a TTY in order to perform this action.

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eddo Guest

2013-10-04 08:01

I received this error when I used:

open scp://user@server -privatekey=C:\myprivatekey.pkk

I resolved in this way

open sftp://user@server -privatekey=C:\myprivatekey.pkk

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Jack.H Guest

2015-02-12 18:17

@Guest3: Thank you! That's exactly the problem I had on Google cloud instance... just need to specify !requiretty in /etc/sudoders

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martin◆ Site Admin

2015-02-16

@Jack.H: This is documented here:
How do I change user after login (e.g. su root)?

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magesh Guest

checkpoint winSCP

2016-04-06 17:27

You probably in the clish mode that's why its not letting you download in the bash.
Login in to the GW under user management > users > unlock the screen from above
For example if you use admin account double click the admin there you can change the shell to /bin/bash

Now go to your WinSCP and download...!!

There we go..!!

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MajorRedbeard Guest

My problem was that SSH was selected

2016-10-25 21:37

I got this error after importing sites into a new machine, and after failing to log in several times, I checked the settings. I saw it was set to SSH, rather than SFTP, as intended.

I switched that and it's working as expected now.

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: My problem was that SSH was selected

2016-10-31

@MajorRedbeard: Where did you have "SSH" selected? You cannot switch between "SFTP" and "SSH" in WinSCP. Can you show us a screenshot?

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Noura Guest

Re: checkpoint winSCP

2017-10-18 13:07

@magesh: Thanks, that works for my checkpoint! ;)

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kujon Guest

2018-04-05 11:47

Or you can simply login to Checkpoint GW via SSH and put this command in (in expert mode):

chsh -s /bin/bash admin

;)

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hudiefa Guest

Error skipping startup message. Your shell is probably incompatible with the application (BASH is re

2018-09-01 22:49

Some Linux machines can't act as server (FirePower sensor) though, you can't use GUI SCP. Instead you can copy from the CLI.

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Guessed Guest

Re:

2020-01-02 16:20

@eddo: This worked like a champ. Thanks for the post with a solution.

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Guest

2020-03-23 10:06

I received the same error. It was caused by expired password on the target server.

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Guest

2020-11-12 15:14

I got the error "error skipping startup message" due to this (as shown in log file):

ssh: Could not resolve hostname qacsun07.qac.my-it-solutions.net: Name or service not known

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chh Guest

Perfect, that did the trick for me.

2021-02-23 17:06

@kujon: Perfect, that did the trick for me.

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Nick2021 Guest

WCP: Error skipping startup message. Your shell is probably incompatible with the application:BASH

2021-06-06 18:12

If you are using WinSCP, please uncheck the SSH > Authentication > Attempt authentication using Pageant for the login session by editing under Advanced.
Retry.

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Guest

Re: This is easy and absolute solution for this type of winscp error. Awesome

2022-09-21 18:42

@kujon: This is easy and absolute solution for this type of WinSCP error. Awesome.

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l.e.s.m. Guest

2023-07-30 15:57

Thanks @eddo. Changing SCP by SFTP worked for me too.

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