Contributed by grey on from the get the candles dept.
Sam Varghese of The Age writes about OpenSSH's fifth anniversary and Damien Miller in the following article: OpenSSH marks its fifth birthday
OpenSSH was first shipped with the 1999 winter OpenBSD 2.6 release. This article is rather timely as we're now ten releases later with the soon to be shipping OpenBSD 3.6.
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By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on
By Anonymous Coward (24.130.94.62) on
The only thing I would like from the OpenSSH package would be tab completion in the sftp client and probably a bit more bells and whistles in the sftp client would really be nice.
Other than that, OpenSSH is great!
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By djm@ (61.95.66.134) on
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By Ed White (151.42.62.237) on
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By djm@ (203.217.30.86) on
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By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on
I'm not sure if you're talking about the network protocol or the command line interface, but the command line interface is preferable to an FTP-like interface. To me at least.
I would be indifferent if scp were replaced with a workalike with the same capabilities but a different back end.
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By Anonymous Coward (65.198.20.164) on
For somethings it's usefull, although it does some funny things sometimes when you don't use it right which I guess would be expected (like duh! use it right bonehead). Yeah, it's a user error thing and I've been boneheaded enough to commit the errors.
All the other suggestions for sftp have been pretty good though. I don't often recursively get full directories of files, but it would really be usefull. mput and mget would also be nice.
Again, those are excellent suggestions. I hope someone much more talented than I can submit patches for those features. ;)
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By djm@ (61.95.66.134) on
By Anonymous Coward (81.26.253.124) on
The syntax is almost the same! You want to set RSYNC_RSH=ssh (or at compile time) and you are set. It doesn't output data by default, much like other file utils such as cp, but throw in a -vP.
The biggest difference is that rsync automatically resumes broken transfers. Plus it has a lot of nice options for uid translation etc. It is much more powerful! Every newly installed system should include rsync!
By RC (4.16.255.65) on
Only if you have a photographic memory, and always know the exact path and filename you want, and are a 100% perfect typist.
I use scp quite a bit too, and it most certainly has it's place, but a good ftp interface beats it hands-down.
The only thing that REALLY bugs be about scp is that special characters need to be double-escaped, if you will... For instance, if you have a space in a directory or filename you want to transfer, you have to put a backslash before the space, and put quotations marks around the whole thing. Alternatively, you can put single-quotes inside of double-quotes to accomplish the same thing, although you can't do that if you want to use wildcards. It's very difficult to keep straight, and entirely pointless, IMHO.
By Mouring (208.27.203.127) mouring@eviladmin.org on
recursive put is easy. I've seen a few implementation. recursive get becomes harder since there is no server side assistances.
- Ben
By Matt Van Mater (65.205.28.104) on
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By Anonymous Coward (195.217.242.33) on
How 'bout another T-Shirt ?
By Anonymous Coward (209.142.209.161) on
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By Lennie (217.122.251.43) leen@wirehub.nl on
http://www.openbsd.org/want.html
Or just buy t-shirts & CD's or donate money ofcourse. :-)