Bug 2771

Summary:	scp has an exit status of 0 when the username is invalid
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Ofer <ofer456123>
Component:	scp	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	djm
Priority:	P5
Version:	7.5p1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Ofer 2017-08-29 17:08:40 AEST

The scp program has an exit status of 0 when the username is invalid.
I get the following on both Linux and Cygwin (note the invalid space in the username):

>scp file.txt "invalid user@host.com:file.txt"
invalid user: invalid user name
>echo $?
0

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2018-04-06 14:40:51 AEST

This was fixed in OpenSSH 7.7

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2018-10-19 17:17:25 AEDT

Close RESOLVED bugs with the release of openssh-8.0