Package: openssh-client Version: 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The recent openssh upstream fix to "check in scp client that filenames sent during remote->local directory copies satisfy the wildcard specified by the user" (*) had an unfortunate side effect of breaking a legitimate use case of scp: deliberately copying the source directory permissions over the target directory. This is achieved by using syntax: "dir/.". Example: $ mkdir dstdir $ scp -pr user@server:srcdir/. dstdir error: unexpected filename: . Even when I attempt to disable strict checking by specifying -T, the issue persists: $ scp -pr -T user@server:srcdir/. dstdir error: unexpected filename: . Instead of failing I would have expected scp to allow copying over srcdir (including the permissions) over to dstdir, when using this explicit syntax. *) https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/391ffc4b9d31fa1f4ad566499fef9176ff8a07dc -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages openssh-client depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii dpkg 1.18.25 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libedit2 3.1-20160903-3 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.15-1+deb9u1 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3 ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2q-1~deb9u1 ii passwd 1:4.4-4.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages openssh-client recommends: ii xauth 1:1.0.9-1+b2 Versions of packages openssh-client suggests: pn keychain <none> pn libpam-ssh <none> pn monkeysphere <none> pn ssh-askpass <none> -- no debconf information
