I usually don't use SSH do do that, but via FTP.  Let's say your client is 
Solairis 10, what i do is: svcadm enable ftp
 
Then on the netbackup server /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/install_client_files ftp 
HOSTNAME client_username

did you try that by ftp ? can you?

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