Passing SFTP options when using SCP

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2022, Darren Tucker wrote:

>scp/sftp have no knowledge of any of that, they just pass -o options
>through to ssh. You'd probably have to add a dependency on readconf.c

OK, I see why that would end up being messy. Though the ability
to set the options in the config file *would* have been a nice
bonus ☺ (My missing knowledge was that scp and sftp call ssh as
a separate thing.)

bye,
//mirabilos
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