Transferring file to local machine when SSHing into a foreign box

[Ángel González]

On 12/05/12 19:45, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I imagine something like this: The user would run a command such as
> the following: remoteServer$ cp2local someFile.c The SSH server on the
> remote host would then push the file to the SSH client running locally
> just as if scp had been used, but it would reuse the existing
> connection. The local SSH client would then write the file just as it
> would have had scp been used. 
The big problem with that approach is that you're trusting your
credentials to the remote side.
If I ssh from A to B, and B is compromised, it shouldn't be able to
compromise A.
Can you provide an alternative usage without that hole?

It may be an issue to be solved in a client, which allowed you to switch
between console and file view (sftp).

>> You could reconfigure your current connection adding a tunnel, and then
>> use that for transfering the files, but you'd still need a local daemon
>> (eg. ftpd) where to drop them.
> I am sure that you recognise the added complexity for the user by way
> of the workaround that you mention. From a technical point of view,
> OpenSSH already has the components necessary to make this a simple
> procedure.
Sure. I was throwing out some ideas which could, perhaps, turn out to be
useful (eg. for doing it in a script).
Regards