On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:> On 4/1/21 1:50 PM, rapier wrote: > > Howdy all, > > > > I know development on SCP is discouraged but being that it's still > > in wide use I thought I would do some work some of my users have > > been asking for and allow SCP to resume from a partial transfer. > > Would it be possible to instead reimplement SCP in terms of SFTP, and then add > this feature to SFTP? My understanding is that such a re-implementation is > something many people have wanted for quite a while.Yes, and there are patches to do this awaiting review: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/194 -d
On 4/5/21 6:22 PM, Damien Miller wrote:> On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > >> On 4/1/21 1:50 PM, rapier wrote: >>> Howdy all, >>> >>> I know development on SCP is discouraged but being that it's still >>> in wide use I thought I would do some work some of my users have >>> been asking for and allow SCP to resume from a partial transfer. >> >> Would it be possible to instead reimplement SCP in terms of SFTP, and then add >> this feature to SFTP? My understanding is that such a re-implementation is >> something many people have wanted for quite a while. > > Yes, and there are patches to do this awaiting review: > > https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/194 > > -dSooner those get merged, the better, IMO. I for one will celebrate the end of the SCP protocol. Sincerely, Demi -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_0xB288B55FFF9C22C1.asc Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 4874 bytes Desc: OpenPGP public key URL: <http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20210406/be41f3f1/attachment.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20210406/be41f3f1/attachment.asc>
On 4/5/21 6:22 PM, Damien Miller wrote:> On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > >> On 4/1/21 1:50 PM, rapier wrote: >>> Howdy all, >>> >>> I know development on SCP is discouraged but being that it's still >>> in wide use I thought I would do some work some of my users have >>> been asking for and allow SCP to resume from a partial transfer. >> >> Would it be possible to instead reimplement SCP in terms of SFTP, and then add >> this feature to SFTP? My understanding is that such a re-implementation is >> something many people have wanted for quite a while. > > Yes, and there are patches to do this awaiting review: > > https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/194That would be awesome. The more I work with the SCP code the more I've come to dislike it.