disabling local-to-local transfers?

[Theo de Raadt]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> I have never asked for changing the default. I just asked for being able
> to configure it.

You asked for scp's to exist which will fail when they are
executed by someone else's script.

That is not acceptable.

> > Additionally, this is clearly documented:
> 
> Making it documented does not make the problem disappear.

Disagree strongly.  The time to disagree with the way this works
is about 34 years ago.

It works that way.  We should not introduce variations of this binary
which behave differently.

> > Improve your typing skills.
> 
> I have been typing fine for 35 years already. But there will still
> always be typoes, and tools are meant to *help* people, not give them
> useless features that essentually always hurt them.
> 
> Really, has anybody here really ever used this feature?

I have, a number of times.