Bug 1368

Summary:

avoid "scp not found" with option to specify remote scp command

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

David Leonard <David.Leonard>

Component:

scp

Assignee:

Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>

Status:

NEW ---

Severity:

normal

Priority:

Version:

4.7p1

Hardware:

Other

OS:

Other

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Add -R option to scp	none

Description David Leonard 2007-09-24 22:53:56 AEST

Created attachment 1359 [details]
Add -R option to scp

This is an enhancement request to add -R option to scp. It would specify the full path to the scp program on the remote host. This can be useful for testing and for managing large numbers of hosts where scp isn't installed in a standard location.

I've been running the tests on clean machines without SSH installed.
They fail because the scp tests assumes that the remote scp program will be found in the PATH. Approaches to fix this (from bugs 42, 72, 82 and the FAQ) involve adding a .ssh/environment or configuring --with-default-path. The former is OK (needs PermitUserEnvironment set during testing) and the latter is unacceptable.

Attached is a patch to add -R to scp, along with doc fixes and test changes.