Attachment 553 Details for Bug 801 – Add scp to FAQ

[patch] Add scp to FAQ

openssh-www-scp-faq.html (text/plain), 1.50 KB, created by Darren Tucker on 2004-02-27 10:19:49 AEDT

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>Index: faq.html
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvs/www/openssh/faq.html,v
>retrieving revision 1.57
>diff -u -p -r1.57 faq.html
>--- faq.html	25 Jan 2004 05:01:47 -0000	1.57
>+++ faq.html	26 Feb 2004 23:18:32 -0000
>@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> 
> <h1>OpenSSH FAQ (Frequently asked questions)</h1>
> 
>-<strong>Date: 2002/04/03</strong>
>+<strong>Date: 2004/02/27</strong>
> 
> <hr>
> 
>@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
> 	<li><a href= "#2.7">2.7 - X11 and/or agent forwarding does not work.</a>
> 	<li><a href= "#2.8">2.8 - After upgrading OpenSSH I lost SSH2 support.</a>
> 	<li><a href= "#2.9">2.9 - sftp/scp fails at connection, but ssh is OK.</a>
>+	<li><a href= "#2.10">2.10 - Will you add [foo] to scp?</a>
> 	</ul>
> <h3><a href= "#3.0">3.0 - Portable OpenSSH Questions</a></h3>
> 	<ul>
>@@ -467,6 +468,22 @@ You can verify if your shell is doing th
> <p>
> If the above command produces any output, then you need to modify your 
> shell initialization.
>+
>+<h2><a name= "2.10">2.10 - Will you add [foo] to scp?</a></h2>
>+
>+<p>
>+Short Answer: no.
>+
>+<p>
>+Long Answer: scp is a non-standard.  The closest thing it has to a
>+specification is "what rcp does".  Since the same command is used on both ends
>+of the connection, adding features or options risks interoperability with other
>+implementations.
>+
>+<p>
>+
>+New features are more likely in sftp, since the protocol is standardized
>+(well, a draft standard), and the client and server are decoupled.
> 
> <h2><u><a name= "3.0">3.0 - Portable OpenSSH Questions</a></u></h2>
>

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