-1 and friends

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:46:57PM -0700, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > Having -1 and -2 would make life a lot easier, if only for testing
> > purposes.  Even a "-o [option]" with scp would be nice.  A lot of 
> > these different products only interoperate in certain modes so I 
> > have to try a lot of things.
> 
> if you switch between protocols all the time, then editing .ssh/config
> is probably the 'right thing'. if you want to switch occasionally, then
> it's easy to type -o protocol=2
> 
Should this also be true about -2 on ssh? Since we have -o  there should
be no reason for it.

> > I would also like to argue for more orthogonality between sch, ssh and
> > sshd.  Why do you turn on verbosity and debugging with "-v" in scp 
> > and ssh, but use "-d" with sshd?  Why do you select a port with 
> > scp and sshd with "-P port" but with "-p port" on sshd?  
> 
> history and compatibility with rcp.
> 
> but there are much more imporant things todo with openssh
> than adding millions of cmdline options.
> 
Do we have a master list of things that should be done to OpenSSH?
I know a few of them (Like rekeying).

> imho, scp needs only -o and the options from rcp. everything
> else can be removed.
> 
Agreed.. I was actually looking for a -o option recently in scp.  I would
have thought scp -S 'ssh -o Protocol 2' would have worked, but of course
it does not.=)

Ben Lindstrom