On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 04:48:43PM +0200, Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I recently added OpenSSH 8.7p1 to rawhide.
> This version includes implementation of the SFTP protocol as the main transfer
> protocol for the scp utility. In upstream, the SCP protocol is used by default
> in the scp utility. The upcoming versions 8.9p1+ (version 8.8p1 is mostly a
> security release) are expected to use SFTP protocol by default. This behavior
> (SFTP as a default transfer protocol for scp utility) is backported to rawhide.
>
> The same approach is planned for RHEL 9 GA,
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions/problems.
Does this change the quoting of scp paths with spaces etc? The
quoting of scp is insane but at least it's a known quantity, and we
baked it into virt-p2v.
Yes. There are changes in the quoting, documented in
If you still need an old quoting, AFAIK, you should explicitly specify the scp protocol via -O command-line option.
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