Re:Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0
by tgragnato on Friday March 29, 2019 @06:56AM
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And this leads to the question.. OpenBSD is famous for removing unwanted or outdated code. What makes scp a special case? Is it too used to be deprecated and removed?
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yeah, pretty much. If someone implemented scp's command-line with sftp underneath then we could start the (slow) deprecation process.
Re:Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0
by throwaway2048 on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:25AM
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its part of the ssh protocol, getting rid of cruft from network protocols is almost completely impossible unfortunately, because its going to destroy many people's workflows, in a way that they can not fix, guaranteed.
Yes, we all know about xkcd, no need to link guys.
scp isn't part of the ssh protocol. It's a command that runs over it.
Out of curiosity, since I wasn't sure which one in particular throwaway2048 was talking about, here are my closest guesses:
927 - Standards - https://xkcd.com/927/
1127 - Workflow - https://xkcd.com/1172/
1323 - Protocol - https://xkcd.com/1323/