Bug 2749

Summary:	support -P and -p in ssh and sftp
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	jg
Component:	ssh	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	djm, dtucker
Priority:	P5
Version:	7.2p2
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux

Description jg 2017-07-27 01:44:22 AEST

Hello
I saw that confusingly sftp requires -P, and ssh requires -p for the port number.
Could they be standardised n -p ? and in the meantime, support both ?

Regards, Jonny

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2017-07-27 11:36:48 AEST

Sorry, -p is already used in scp and sftp for another purpose. Changing its meaning would break >10 years of working scripts.

Comment 2 jg 2017-07-27 11:39:57 AEST

Maybe need a new letter, which is a standard that works across all

Or even accept IP:port style?

Comment 3 Darren Tucker 2017-07-27 13:08:45 AEST

-oPort=N works on both.

Comment 4 jg 2017-07-27 14:06:51 AEST

Darren, would the standard help be updated to show that instead?

Comment 5 Darren Tucker 2017-07-27 14:24:10 AEST

-o is in the standard usage text for both sftp and scp.  All of the arguments it can take are not because there are dozens of them and they're all documented in the man page.

Comment 6 jg 2017-07-27 14:40:53 AEST

Thinking like below. Likewise for SSH and SCP.

usage: sftp [-1246aCfpqrv] [-B buffer_size] [-b batchfile] [-c cipher]
          [-D sftp_server_path] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] [-l limit]
          [-o ssh_option] [-oPort=N] [-R num_requests] [-S program]
          [-s subsystem | sftp_server] host
       sftp [user@]host[:file ...]
       sftp [user@]host[:dir[/]]
       sftp -b batchfile [user@]ho

Comment 7 Darren Tucker 2017-07-27 14:54:41 AEST

I don't think so, sorry.

Comment 8 Damien Miller 2021-04-23 14:53:11 AEST

closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release