Bug 985

Summary:	scp doesn't honor local ~/.ssh/config for host2
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Omachonu Ogali <missnglnk>
Component:	scp	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4
Version:	3.8p1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Omachonu Ogali 2005-02-22 05:14:55 AEDT

When copying a file between two remote hosts (scp host1:/path/to/file 
host2:/path/to/file), it is the equivalent of:
ssh host1 'scp /path/to/file host2:/destination/path'

If you are using locally-defined nicknames for hosts (from ~/.ssh/config), the 
copy to host2 will fail if the nickname is not defined in host1's ~/.ssh/config.

Perhaps, the user can specify a command line argument to optionally have the 
local instance of scp can pass the locally-defined parameters for host2 (if it 
exists in ~/.ssh/config), to the ssh process being spawned on host1...

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2006-03-12 16:15:41 AEDT

Sorry, but this would add a fair amount of complexity to something that doesn't work very well already and would probably break working configurations if we went ahead and implemented it.

Comment 2 Darren Tucker 2006-10-07 11:38:43 AEST

Change all RESOLVED bug to CLOSED with the exception of the ones fixed post-4.4.