scp doesn't have a 'Use non privileged port' switch

[Christian Kurz]

On 00-12-27 Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > and another feature request that I got from a debian user and that I
> > think should be included in openssh. Thanks.
> >
> > |Unlike the 'old' ssh (Package: ssh; Version: 1.2.26-1.2)'s scp
> > |openssh's scp does not support the -L option which according to
> > |old ssh's manpage does the following:
> >
> > |>        -L    Use non privileged port. With this  you  cannot  use
> > |>              rhosts   or rsarhosts authentications, but it can be
> > |>              used to bypass some firewalls that dont allow privi­
> > |>              leged  source  ports  to  pass.  Same  as saying "-o
> > |>              UsePriviledgePort=no" or -P to ssh; -L is  used  due
> > |>              to exhaustion of suitable letters.
> >

> As mentioned, use 'scp -o "UsePrivilegedPort=no"' or add the option to
> ssh_config or .ssh/config.

> IIRC there's no intention of bloating scp with all kinds of options when
> you can pass them directly to ssh with -o (this was the argument with scp
> -2 option, at least).

Thanks, just wanted to ask here, before adding a small note about this
to the README in our debian package. Thanks.

Ciao
     Christian
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