[openssh-commits] [openssh] 05/08: upstream: Mention that scp uses the SFTP protocol and remove

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commit 797da2812a71785b34890bb6eb44767a7d09cd34
Author: djm at openbsd.org <djm at openbsd.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 16 07:13:22 2022 +0000

    upstream: Mention that scp uses the SFTP protocol and remove
    
    reference to legacy flag. Spotted by, feedback and ok jmc@
    
    OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 9dfe04966f52e941966b46c7a2972147f95281b3
---
 scp.1 | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scp.1 b/scp.1
index 61e49633..54c6fe3d 100644
--- a/scp.1
+++ b/scp.1
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Created: Sun May  7 00:14:37 1995 ylo
 .\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.111 2022/12/16 03:40:03 djm Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.112 2022/12/16 07:13:22 djm Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd $Mdocdate: December 16 2022 $
 .Dt SCP 1
@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@
 .Nm
 copies files between hosts on a network.
 .Pp
-It uses
+.Nm
+uses the SFTP protocol over a
 .Xr ssh 1
-for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the
-same security as a login session.
+connection for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides
+the same security as a login session.
 .Pp
 .Nm
 will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for
@@ -111,9 +112,7 @@ Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer.
 This option is directly passed to
 .Xr ssh 1 .
 .It Fl D Ar sftp_server_path
-When using the SFTP protocol support via
-.Fl M ,
-connect directly to a local SFTP server program rather than a
+Connect directly to a local SFTP server program rather than a
 remote one via
 .Xr ssh 1 .
 This option may be useful in debugging the client and server.

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