bug in scp (OpenSSH)

[Roman Drahtmueller]

> From: Markus Friedl <markus at openbsd.org>
[...]
> > > can you please try this:
> >
> > well, this "fixes" (works around) the passwd leakage, but nothing more.
> >
> > it still copies the file with wrong "contents" (all zeros now) and still
> > doesn't handle the I/O error correctly (which IMHO means it should
> > stop writing/copying like cp(1) and most other tools do).
>
> this is the way rcp protocol works.

Are you serious that you want to keep a bug because "this is how the rcp
protocol works"? It is clearly flawed.

Is it necessary to make full quotes for a single sentence?

Roman.
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