On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 09:33:09PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 08:26:39PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Why does "scp becomes the CLI for SFTP" necessitate "the SCP protocol > > breaks"? > > The way scp works today is "run ssh to the remote, then invoke scp with > a few extra options". As I noted in https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2019-January/037479.html, the protocol involves passing -f or -t options as appropriate, so it's perfectly straightforward for the client to speak SFTP while preserving the existing server protocol. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx] _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
