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authorderaadt@openbsd.org <deraadt@openbsd.org>2020-10-03 02:18:33 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2020-10-03 13:39:22 +1000
commit66bd9fdf8b7762eb6a85cabbb1ae4ed955679f60 (patch)
tree91ae2ca482fa902e098d249e47a61cf3a9e28617 /scp.1
parent86cc8ce002ea10e88a4c5d622a8fdfab8a7d261f (diff)
downloadopenssh-git-66bd9fdf8b7762eb6a85cabbb1ae4ed955679f60.tar.gz
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
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diff --git a/scp.1 b/scp.1
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@@ -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.