In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Ruediger Bahls writes: > > to have an -l option for sftp would be really nice > but perhaps one should argument a little bit differently > > your argument would be a lot stronger if it would go like that:
Hi Christian! Indeed, you are right. Your argument is certainly stronger, I was looking only at some "symmetry" in the options available on both OpenSSH commands. A very good point. > imagine a user alice who has something like that in her /etc/login.conf > [snip] > whoever:\ > :auth=skey,passwd:\ > :tc=default: > [snap] [...] > ok regularly she would be bitten by: > "scp -r that_very_important_directory me:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Backups" > > there she would start to argue that every ssh aware program > should perhaps provide "-l" to the user That is a very good point, agreed. > so i guess if you argue in that direction .. or refer to my post > _and_ provide a patch for easy integration into OpenSSH > we could both have an itch scratched :) I would be glad to refer to your post, but you currently sent it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I certainly acknowledge that your argument is stronger than mine. Thank you very much for your excellent feedback. I will be glad to test and provide a patch. Now that the OpenSSH source code seems really stable (with only some minor changes and aesthetical patches) I suppose that this patch can be written and submitted without a fear it cannot be cleanly applied if it stays some time on the mailing list. As there is not negative feedback in relation with my proposal, I suppose that writing that patch would be reasonable with only a small chance of being wasted time. I will try to submit a patch very soon. I suppose that copying/pasting the code currently available will be a good idea, I will just look at the source code to know if it can be integrated without a lot of changes. I certainly trust on the way the operating system is being written and prefer using the code currently available as a reference. Thanks again for your feedback on this matter. I really appreciate your post. Cheers, Igor.
