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| author | deraadt@openbsd.org <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2020-10-03 04:18:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2020-10-03 05:39:22 +0200 |
| commit | 66bd9fdf8b7762eb6a85cabbb1ae4ed955679f60 (patch) | |
| tree | 91ae2ca482fa902e098d249e47a61cf3a9e28617 /scp.1 | |
| parent | use relative rather than system include here (diff) | |
| download | openssh-66bd9fdf8b7762eb6a85cabbb1ae4ed955679f60.tar.xz openssh-66bd9fdf8b7762eb6a85cabbb1ae4ed955679f60.zip | |
upstream: split introductory paragraph, and insert ominous words about
the glob issue, which cannot be fully fixed and really requires completely
replacing scp with a completely different subsystem. team effort to find the
right words..
OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 58e1f72d292687f63eb357183036ee242513691c
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | scp.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ .\" .\" Created: Sun May 7 00:14:37 1995 ylo .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.90 2020/08/03 02:43:41 djm Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.91 2020/10/03 02:18:33 deraadt Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: August 3 2020 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 3 2020 $ .Dt SCP 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -31,11 +31,15 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm copies files between hosts on a network. +.Pp It uses .Xr ssh 1 for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the -same security as -.Xr ssh 1 . +same security as a login session. +The scp protocol requires execution of the remote user's shell to perform +.Xr glob 3 +pattern matching. +.Pp .Nm will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for authentication. |