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I think you are missing OPs point entirely. We already have scp for free. (And thanks!) Deprecating it without providing an alternative is pointless. Are you go
by hyperbovine 6y ago
I think you are missing OPs point entirely. We already have scp for free. (And thanks!) Deprecating it without providing an alternative is pointless. Are you going to wake up tomorrow and suddenly stop using this incredibly handy tool because some blog post said you should? No.
- justincormack 6y agoIf OpenSSH tells me it is insecure I will stop using it, free or not, alternative or not. I mostly moved to rsync.
- hungryforcodes 6y agoOk and what happens when they decide to deprecate rsync for some random reason.
- jfindley 6y ago"[...] without providing an alternative" is a rather strong position. There are multiple alternatives - for many users the underlying protocol changing to sftp will allow them to just keep working as they always did, and they won't even notice the difference. For users copying to machines without a functional sftp subsystem there will be a small amount of workflow modification to do but there are many ways of securely copying files - even if the syntax is slightly different I don't think that means they don't count as alternatives.