Deprecation of scp protocol and improving sftp client

[Ethan Rahn]

I wanted to bring this up again due to:
https://github.com/cpandya2909/CVE-2020-15778/. This showcases a clear
issue with scp which it sounds like cannot be fixed without breaking scp.
This seems like it would lend some impetus to doing _something_, even if it
breaks scp or necessitates using something new.

Cheers,

Ethan

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 7:47 AM Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Red Cricket wrote:
>
> > I have had this in my .bashrc for years:
> >
> > alias scp='rsync -avzP'
>
> Similar, though I named it rcp because nobody has the real rcp installed
> any more, but sometimes I need scp to connect to systems that lack rsync.
>
>
> https://evolvis.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=shellsnippets/shellsnippets.git;a=blob;f=mksh/rcp;hb=HEAD
>
> > maybe rsync is a better replacement for scp than sftp would be?
>
> It could be, were it not under a restrictive licence…
>
>
> This doesn’t preclude people from making SSH’s builtin transfers
> better, though.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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