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| author | djm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org> | 2022-12-16 08:13:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Darren Tucker <dtucker@dtucker.net> | 2023-01-03 07:53:05 +0100 |
| commit | 797da2812a71785b34890bb6eb44767a7d09cd34 (patch) | |
| tree | a883e907b8e1f72153c5a4229d84d9aa30e0eadb /scp.1 | |
| parent | upstream: Clear signal mask early in main(); sshd may have been (diff) | |
| download | openssh-797da2812a71785b34890bb6eb44767a7d09cd34.tar.xz openssh-797da2812a71785b34890bb6eb44767a7d09cd34.zip | |
upstream: Mention that scp uses the SFTP protocol and remove
reference to legacy flag. Spotted by, feedback and ok jmc@
OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 9dfe04966f52e941966b46c7a2972147f95281b3
Diffstat (limited to 'scp.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | scp.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" .\" Created: Sun May 7 00:14:37 1995 ylo .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.111 2022/12/16 03:40:03 djm Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.112 2022/12/16 07:13:22 djm Exp $ .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: December 16 2022 $ .Dt SCP 1 @@ -34,10 +34,11 @@ .Nm copies files between hosts on a network. .Pp -It uses +.Nm +uses the SFTP protocol over a .Xr ssh 1 -for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the -same security as a login session. +connection for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides +the same security as a login session. .Pp .Nm will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for @@ -111,9 +112,7 @@ Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer. This option is directly passed to .Xr ssh 1 . .It Fl D Ar sftp_server_path -When using the SFTP protocol support via -.Fl M , -connect directly to a local SFTP server program rather than a +Connect directly to a local SFTP server program rather than a remote one via .Xr ssh 1 . This option may be useful in debugging the client and server. |