[PATCH] Add scp -1 and -2 options to OpenSSH-3.0.2p1

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Mon Jan 28 23:20:56 EST 2002


On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:11:43AM -0800, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> Yeah, I did do UI design before I got into security :-)

this is why i think -C -c -i should not be in scp.
it's an accident to have them in scp.
see what happened with -P/-p ? it's nightmare,
you cannot have both rcp's and ssh's options
in scp. and since scp is basically just rcp calling
ssh, scp should have rcp's options plus _one_ simple
way of passing options to ssh. so use -F and -o.

you cannot have consistency between these 3 programs,
so for consistency scp should have _no_ options from
ssh, because if it _has_ then people want every option.



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