[Bug 2771] New: scp has an exit status of 0 when the username is invalid

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2771

            Bug ID: 2771
           Summary: scp has an exit status of 0 when the username is
                    invalid
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 7.5p1
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5
         Component: scp
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: ofer456123 at mail.com

The scp program has an exit status of 0 when the username is invalid.
I get the following on both Linux and Cygwin (note the invalid space in
the username):

>scp file.txt "invalid user at host.com:file.txt"
invalid user: invalid user name
>echo $?
0

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