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No it's whe have already sftp wich is better and whe have unfixed bugs in scp so whe throw it out. >>The scp command is a historical protocol (called rcp) whic
by nix23 6y ago
No it's whe have already sftp wich is better and whe have unfixed bugs in scp so whe throw it out.
>>The scp command is a historical protocol (called rcp) which relies upon that style of argument passing and encounters expansion problems. It has proven very difficult to add "security" to the scp model. All attempts to "detect" and "prevent" anomalous argument transfers stand a great chance of breaking existing workflows. Yes, we recognize it the situation sucks. But we don't want to break the easy patterns people use scp for, until there is a commonplace replacement
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- sildur 6y agoThat's not better.
- nix23 6y agoI see your totally not into "let's read the article first" thing.
- adrian_b 6y agoNo, "sildur" was correct that the "sftp" protocol is not better than the "scp" protocol. Another poster described in detail the problems with the "scp" and "sftp" protocols. They have different advantages and disadvantages and neither of them can be considered a good file copy protocol.
- nix23 6y ago>It has proven very difficult to add "security" to the scp model. >>Compared to the SCP protocol, which only allows file transfers, the SFTP protocol allows for a range of operations on remote files which make it more like a remote file system protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol If you want the best "JUST File-transfer prog" use nc or rsync over ssh