Bug 634

Summary:

Make sftp (mostly) compatible with scp commandline

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

William Sherwin <wgs3>

Component:

scp

Assignee:

OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

Severity:

enhancement

CC:

djm, openssh-bugs

Priority:

Keywords:

low-hanging-fruit

Version:

3.6.1p2

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Bug Depends on:

520

Bug Blocks:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
scp-like commandline syntax for sftp	none

Description William Sherwin 2003-09-03 12:14:22 AEST

It is impossible to utilize scp to copy files between a machine running OpenSSH
and one running ssh.com's SSHD from the console of the OpenSSH machine.  It
first attempts to execute SSH1 compatibility, at which point it fails.  I
believe that this problem is intentional (from ssh.com); however, I am
uncertain, and this precludes my use of OpenSSH as I need scp access to ssh.com
machines.

Comment 1 Markus Friedl 2003-09-03 19:57:35 AEST

you can use sftp instead,
i don't think we will add sftp protocol support to scp soon.

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2003-09-04 13:54:46 AEST

ssh.com changed the protocol, but kept the binary name the same. In ssh.com's
language:

ssh1 scp == scp
ssh2 scp == sftp

Our sftp works fine with ssh.com ssh2 "scp" and our scp works fine with their
ssh1 "scp".

OTOH I'd love someone to write a scp-compatible commandline syntax for our sftp.

Comment 3 Andrew Mortensen 2004-12-08 03:08:33 AEDT

Created attachment 750 [details]
scp-like commandline syntax for sftp

First pass at scp-like commandline syntax for sftp.

Comment 4 Damien Miller 2022-09-28 12:04:18 AEST

We did the opposite recently: scp now uses sftp under the hood by default.

Comment 5 Damien Miller 2022-10-04 21:58:54 AEDT

Closing bugs from openssh-9.1 release cycle