Re: SFTP no autocompletion?
Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au writes: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:36:43PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:33:27AM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: | Hi there, | | does SFTP have no TAB-autocompletion for local/remote files? TAB | doesn't work. It makes transferring files very clumsy. And does SFTP | secure my username and password or only my file transfers by default? SFTP uses ssh and thus secures the entire connection. The sftp(1) client that comes by default with OpenBSD does not do tabcompletion. Feel free to use another client or to write support for it and send a patch ;) Anyone looking into this would probably want to look at what Ben Lindstrom has already done with this: http://www.eviladmin.org/patches/sftp-tab.patch I would just beware of this patch. It works fine for local files, but there are some serious flaws in remote file completion due to the fact that remote-glob() doesn't act like glob() (Read: sftp will crash in some cases). This is a long known bug to me, but I've had very little energy to complete it since I have no real backers nor have had time in the past few years. Just wanted to provide the warning. =-) - Ben
SFTP no autocompletion?
Hi there, does SFTP have no TAB-autocompletion for local/remote files? TAB doesn't work. It makes transferring files very clumsy. And does SFTP secure my username and password or only my file transfers by default? Pieter Verberne p.s. (my lines are longer than 72 caracters, is that a problem?)
Re: SFTP no autocompletion?
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:33:27AM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: | Hi there, | | does SFTP have no TAB-autocompletion for local/remote files? TAB | doesn't work. It makes transferring files very clumsy. And does SFTP | secure my username and password or only my file transfers by default? SFTP uses ssh and thus secures the entire connection. The sftp(1) client that comes by default with OpenBSD does not do tabcompletion. Feel free to use another client or to write support for it and send a patch ;) | Pieter Verberne | | p.s. (my lines are longer than 72 caracters, is that a problem?) Yes. You shouldn't. Why are you even asking and not just limiting your lines to 72 chars ? Please read http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- [++-]+++.+++[---].+++[+ +++-].++[-]+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
Re: SFTP no autocompletion?
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:36:43PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:33:27AM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: | Hi there, | | does SFTP have no TAB-autocompletion for local/remote files? TAB | doesn't work. It makes transferring files very clumsy. And does SFTP | secure my username and password or only my file transfers by default? SFTP uses ssh and thus secures the entire connection. The sftp(1) client that comes by default with OpenBSD does not do tabcompletion. Feel free to use another client or to write support for it and send a patch ;) Anyone looking into this would probably want to look at what Ben Lindstrom has already done with this: http://www.eviladmin.org/patches/sftp-tab.patch -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.
