openssh bugs - Mar 2009 - [Bug 1576] New: ssh-add doesn't have --help or --version options

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576

           Summary: ssh-add doesn't have --help or --version options
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 5.2p1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Documentation
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: baron at sequent.org


ssh-add doesn't have --help.  If I give the --help option, I can see it
runs exactly as though I didn't give any options.

But if I give the -h option it complains about an illegal option and
prints out the text I would expect to see from --help.

I also see no --version option and no way to get this information from
the tool itself.

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
                 CC|                            |djm at mindrot.org




--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>  2009-03-21
17:59:12 ---
No OpenSSH program supports --help, --version or any other
--long-option. You must be confusing us with GNU software that tends to
do stuff like this - we aren't.

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--- Comment #2 from Baron Schwartz <baron at sequent.org>  2009-03-21
22:37:52 ---
That doesn't match the behavior I see on my machine.

baron at kanga:~$ ssh --help
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c
cipher_spec]
           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
           [-i identity_file] [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
           [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p
port]
           [-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
           [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]] [user@]hostname [command]
baron at kanga:~$ scp --help
usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
           [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
           [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2
baron at kanga:~$ ssh-copy-id --help
Usage: /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine

On the other hand, ssh-agent ignores --help too.

I assume the above are all just 'syntax error' responses.  But they
have the appearance of being --help responses.

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--- Comment #3 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>  2009-03-23
13:26:45 ---
That behaviour is "by accident", since both those programs print usage
information when they receive an unknown argument. "--help" is
interpreted first as "--" and '-' is not a valid option
character.

ssh-add actually does this too, but it checks whether ssh-agent is
reachable first, so you may not see it.

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #4 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> 2009-10-06 15:02:03
EST ---
Mass move of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED now that 5.3 is out.

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