bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.mindrot.org
2017-Sep-27 13:20 UTC
[Bug 2785] New: Add -P ssh option as alias for -p to set the port
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2785
Bug ID: 2785
Summary: Add -P ssh option as alias for -p to set the port
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 7.6p1
Hardware: Other
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: ssh
Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
Reporter: allcoms at gmail.com
Arguably the second most popular SSH util after ssh itself is scp.
Confusingly (especially for newcomers) ssh uses -p to set the port to
use whilst scp uses -P.
I've been using Linux for 21 years now but I still make the mistake of
getting the case of these options wrong. As far as I can see, -P isn't
currently being used as an option by ssh so I would like to see it
added as an alias / alternative to using -p so as to match with scp.
PS I've made a lot of feature requests in my time but this one took me
the longest to actually get around to. I'm sure its been secretly
annoying thousands of other sysadmins for decades too! :)
Thanks ssh team!
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bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.mindrot.org
2017-Sep-27 21:10 UTC
[Bug 2785] Add -P ssh option as alias for -p to set the port
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2785
Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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CC| |dtucker at zip.com.au
--- Comment #1 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> ---
It is actually used in ssh although it's for a deprecated option:
$ grep -C1 "'P'" ssh.c
break;
case 'P': /* deprecated */
options.use_privileged_port = 0;
-oport=N works on both, though.
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bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.mindrot.org
2018-Feb-23 03:24 UTC
[Bug 2785] Add -P ssh option as alias for -p to set the port
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2785
Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
CC| |djm at mindrot.org
Resolution|--- |WONTFIX
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bugzilla-daemon at mindrot.org
2021-Apr-23 04:58 UTC
[Bug 2785] Add -P ssh option as alias for -p to set the port
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2785
Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED
--- Comment #2 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release
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