Monday 22 April 2019

WinSCP " Connection has been unexpectedly closed" while accessing your checkpoint firewall.

April 22, 2019 Raj

For WinSCP to work, change shell to “BASH”

When you get the below error logging into WinSCP, you know what is the problem. You need to change the shell to BASH.

WinSCP needs bash.

Here is how to fix it?

1. Login to your gateway/firewall using admin/or the username that you are using while logging into WinSCP.

2. Go to Expert mode

3. Chsh –s /bin/bash

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April 22, 2019 Raj

Do you need to know what shell your checkpoint firewall currently has?

Login to your gateway using admin
Go to Expert mode

You can use the below command to check what the current shell mode is:

egrep admin /etc/passwd

The output will be like this:

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