Bug 1190

Summary:	scp -r copies soft links across as real files
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Gearoid Murphy <gearoid.murphy>
Component:	scp	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	djm
Priority:	P2
Version:	4.2p1
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux

Description Gearoid Murphy 2006-05-18 06:32:01 AEST

scp -r recursively copies soft links (such as directories) from the source machine and places them as real directories in the target machine

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2008-06-13 13:49:32 AEST

We will document this behaviour, but it is too late to change it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1466 ***

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2008-07-22 12:08:14 AEST

Mass update RESOLVED->CLOSED after release of openssh-5.1