Incorrect shell quotation in scp

[Christian Kurz]

On 00-12-27 Stian Soiland wrote:
> On 2000-12-27 20:16:45+0100, Christian Kurz wrote:

> >as the current debian maintainer of the openssh package is a bit busy,
> >I'm helping him with fixing a part of the bugs in openssh that debian
> >users found will forward some of the reports to you. This is the first
> >one and a fix or a comment why this should not be fixed would be
> >appropriated. Thanks

> >Space in filename is not correctly passed by scp to other invoked
> >programs:

> I supplied a patch for this problem two weeks ago. The patch is still
> uncommented on the list, and not taken into the CVS, but it really
> works great. Here goes:

>   http://stain.portveien.to/diverse/scp/

> The problem resides in missing quotation of commands from scp to ssh.
> This patch should fix this. 

Well, as I don't want to have to extra patches for the openssh package,
I would prefer if either your patch will be taken into CVS or the
developers come up with a better patch.

> (and, yes, you might as well change the same lines in the
> woody-version. :) ) 

Oh you are a debian user? :)

Ciao
     Christian
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