Call for testing: OpenSSH-5.7

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Iain Morgan wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:31:24 -0600, Damien Miller wrote:
> > 
> >  * scp(1): Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts
> >    are transferred through the local host.  Without this option the
> >    data is copied directly between the two remote hosts. 
> > 
> 
> Hi Damien,
> 
> Unfortunately, this breaks the command-line compatibility between scp(1)
> and sftp(1) that was recently achieved. Admittedly, sftp doesn't support
> transfers between two remote hosts, but it might be worthwhile to add
> some dummy support to sftp(1) to preserve the compatibility. In other
> words, it should accept but ignore -3.

Well, sftp doesn't support remote->remote transfers at all yet so the
commandline syntax isn't 100% complete to begin with.

-d