bug in scp (OpenSSH)

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jason Stone wrote:

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> > I'm afraid I disagree.  I like the scp progress info.
> > To a naive user it let's them know that at least
> > something is happening.  The advanced user knows
> > enough to turn it off, IMO.
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> If you as a sysadmin want your naive users to see the progress bar, you
> can alias scp to "scp -l" (or whatever the option would be) in the default
> shell prefs, just as many admins alias rm to "rm -i"
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"If the person does not want to see it they can always alias scp to 'scp
-q'.."

The street goes both ways.

I'm sorry, but I think this argument has gone on too far and it is
no where remotely useful.

- Ben