scp not tolerant of extraneous shell messages

[Dan Kaminsky]

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>>You are really looking for sftp which has no shell dependancies.
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>no, sftp has, but a lot of things have.
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>of course you can hack magic things into sftp/sftp-server
>and discard the output from .profile.
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Markus--

    Why should sftp-server have any shell dependancy at all?  I was 
under the impression the whole point of the subsystem interface was to 
finally gain independance from the vagaries of the shell.

    Indeed, poking through the code, session.c:1630 looks like it's 
executing the command directly...just a straight do_exec(s, cmd).  So 
how is the shell still coming through w/ init strings?

--Dan