On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 11:03:41AM +0200, Jakub Jelen wrote:
At this moment, downloading files using sftp works the same as with scp: sftp localhost:/tmp/scp.c /tmp/tmp Extending sftp to work the same way for uploading files to avoid the above mess should be also pretty easy and would cover the most common use cases.
yes, but in 20 years nobody has gotten around to it. :)
Getting complete feature-parity with scp would be another feat though.
I don't think many people want *complete* feature parity, and that's probably impossible to do without reintroducing the same security issues as scp. What would make sftp a viable replacement is simply supporting sending and receiving files with optional permission preservation and recursion (99.9% of what scp is used for). sftp is most of the way there, but if someone can't send a file with a simple sftp invocation they'll just keep using scp.
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