Transferring file to local machine when SSHing into a foreign box

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Bert Wesarg
<bert.wesarg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It's not. Because SSH does not monitor what commands you execute in
> the remote shell and the shell does not know that it's a remote shell.
>

I am not suggesting that the local SSH client monitor what is being
typed into the shell. Rather, the SSH server on the remote host would
have a command cpLocal that would wrap scp with all the needed
connection information. If the user is not connected via SSH then
cpLocal could throw an error.



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