scp -2 patch

[Stuart Craig]

I'm not all that concerned about consistency, but I would like to see a
-2 switch on both ssh and scp.  I've got a network with around 150 *NIX
systems running a mix of OpenSSH, commercial ssh1 and commercial ssh2,
and I'd like to be able to force a protocol 2 connection when I need it.

 - Stu

Theo de Raadt wrote:
> 
> That doesn't make sense either.
> 
> ssh has a lot of options, because it needs them.
> 
> scp has few options, because it doesn't need them.
> 
> It's like comparing the sum of the options on rlogin, telnet, and
> xterm, to the options on rcp.
> 
> There just is no need for consistancy.
> 
> You didn't even give a justification for why you might want to scp -2.
> 
> It doesn't make sense.
> 
> > Theo de Raadt [mailto:deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org]:
> > > I don't think there should be a scp -2 flag.  The ssh -2 flag is mostly
> > > there for testing.
> > >
> > > Users don't need to tweak all this stuff.
> > >
> > > Options are bad.  It just bloats the code!
> > >
> >
> > I humbly suggest either adding it to scp or removing it from ssh for
> > consistency.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> 
> 1

--
Stuart J. Craig <scraig at eli.net>
Senior UNIX Administrator
Electric Lightwave, Inc.
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