On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 18:00 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > IMO a complete fix should involve converting scp to use the SFTP > protocol under the hood. I've had thought about the same but didn't dare to propose it ;-) The problem IMO is: Either such scp would silently fall back to the "old" scp protocol, if it talks to an "old" server... (in which case the whole thing doesn't make any sense). Or compatibility would be broken. I (personally) wouldn't mind that,... there are too many nice features one would like to see in scp for long and which are allegedly not possible because of the protocol... being safe, asking for confirmation on overwriting, XATTRs, ACLs,... But whatever it is: most people I know don't like the sftp interface,... and it shouldn't be assumed that remote servers are trustworthy (even if they actually are). Cheers, Chris. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
