Deprecating scp [LWN.net]

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 3:19 UTC (Fri) by em-bee (subscriber, #117037)
Parent article: Deprecating scp

if i understand this correctly then the problem here is the scp protocol but not the scp commandline interface.

so how difficult would it be to create a wrapper around sftp that is compatible with the scp commandline?

maybe it need not even be 100% compatible but cover like 90% of scp use cases.

greetings, eMBee.

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Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 4:31 UTC (Fri) by re:fi.64 (subscriber, #132628) [Link] (1 responses)

This already exists and is covered in the last two paragraphs of the article.

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 6:45 UTC (Fri) by em-bee (subscriber, #117037) [Link]

i can't explain how i managed to skip those paragraphs...

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 10:51 UTC (Fri) by grawity (subscriber, #80596) [Link]

PuTTY has already done so; its "pscp" command uses SFTP when it can. The SSH.COM "scp2" is an SFTP client as well. OpenSSH is the only one who hasn't.

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 6, 2020 22:24 UTC (Fri) by Comet (guest, #11646) [Link]

If memory serves, then the original SSH.com implementation, when they released protocol v2, made scp over v2 use the SFTP protocol.

At the time that OpenSSH was launched, the developers involved didn't yet see the value in dropping the simplicity of the rcp-over-ssh protocol or messing with interop.

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