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authorjctanner <tanner.jc@gmail.com>2016-09-29 17:44:54 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-09-29 17:44:54 -0400
commitfff161f2f69280a9db86a3ba18c9ef54ee2639d9 (patch)
treee99570a6280e3e7495e364dea3b5b98f73e11ac6 /examples/ansible.cfg
parent1f03801fccd5b3eceb91e3d4b70177304e5da874 (diff)
downloadansible-fff161f2f69280a9db86a3ba18c9ef54ee2639d9.tar.gz
Smart mode for sftp+scp (#17813)
If the sftp fails, roll over to scp by default. This saves users from having to know about the scp_if_ssh method when sftp is broken on the remote host.
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#
#pipelining = False
-# if True, make ansible use scp if the connection type is ssh
-# (default is sftp)
-#scp_if_ssh = True
+# Control the mechanism for transfering files
+# * smart = try sftp and then try scp [default]
+# * True = use scp only
+# * False = use sftp only
+#scp_if_ssh = smart
# if False, sftp will not use batch mode to transfer files. This may cause some
# types of file transfer failures impossible to catch however, and should