[Bug 1362] Scp should not follow links

Fri Dec 21 12:30:12 EST 2007

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1362

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
                 CC|                            |djm at mindrot.org

--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>  2007-12-21 12:30:08 ---
Unfortunately we cannot change the behaviour of scp. There is no way to
extend the protocol it uses in a backwards-compatible manner and we
can't change the default behaviour because it would break user's
scripts.

I suggest that you look at using tar or rsync over ssh if you want to
avoid this.

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