scp -2 patch

[Markus Friedl]

all the scp needs is a -o flag. that's it. who has a patch?


On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:30:35PM -0700, Stuart Craig wrote:
> 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.