Transferring file to local machine when SSHing into a foreign box

[John Olsson M]

Hi,


> 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.

You also need to consider the case where the user is *not* running a normal (like TCSH, Bash, ZSH, ...) shell on the server and where the file system is exposed as a virtual filesystem via SFTP (which might run in another chrooted directory than the SSH subsystem).

What would a path to a local file look like in this context?

I see this as a security hole since you suddenly get acess to files via SSH which you do not get access to via SFTP (since it is chrooted)...


/John