scp -2 patch

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, 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.

Does OpenSSH's protocol fallback not work correctly?

Otherwise you can use ssh_config or ~/.ssh/config:

Host foo
	Protocol 1

Host bar
	Protocol 2

This takes care of both ssh and scp. Though I do agree with Markus that
a '-o' scp option is the way to go.

-d

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