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>
Is it really the end, though?? Maybe we need to maintain support of SCP protocol for interoperation with servers and clients that don't do SFTP? -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: SCP with Resume Feature Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 06:18:27 -0400 From: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour at gmail.com> To: Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> CC: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org 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