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authorDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2011-05-15 08:36:29 +1000
committerDamien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>2011-05-15 08:36:29 +1000
commit58a77e2eac23f22708002e00a57af1b9cbec282f (patch)
treea60de560160239d1be2c30a149a09d3fb38faeb9 /sftp.1
parentfd53abd00bf1708c401f3de3d62e9d8ca635e4d3 (diff)
downloadopenssh-git-58a77e2eac23f22708002e00a57af1b9cbec282f.tar.gz
- djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2011/05/06 01:09:53
[sftp.1] mention that IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets; bz#1845
Diffstat (limited to 'sftp.1')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sftp.1 b/sftp.1
index 89b5d354..3b6ee389 100644
--- a/sftp.1
+++ b/sftp.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sftp.1,v 1.88 2010/12/04 00:18:01 djm Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sftp.1,v 1.89 2011/05/06 01:09:53 djm Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Damien Miller. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 4 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 6 2011 $
.Dt SFTP 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ to obviate the need to enter a password at connection time (see
and
.Xr ssh-keygen 1
for details).
+.Pp
+Since some usage formats use colon characters to delimit host names from path
+names, IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets to avoid ambiguity.
+.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl 1