OpenSSH GSoC Project

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Mar 23, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Pavel Labath wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I too would like to apply for GSoC scholarship and work on sftp.
>
> I'm not sure if i should contact djm directly (you say he's swamped  
> with
> emails, so i guess people are talking to him privately), but I thought
> I'd write here.
>
> So, what are the features we want a polished sftp to have? The only
> thing mentioned so far is the recursive up/down load, which looks more
> like a thing for a two day hackfest than a all-summer-long $4.5k
> operation. Features i would consider useful are:
> - tab completion (both commands and filenames) - very useful, not  
> difficult

A nearly completed version already exists.  It just needs someone to  
do the final polish it and import it.  The last version should be in  
bugzilla.

- Ben