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Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00

Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> Mon, 22 July 2013 02:16 UTC

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From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> For starters I'd use SCP/FTP functionality as a baseline, LS, GET/PUT/DELETE,
> CHDIR/MKDIR/RMDIR/PWD, that's been enough for FTP for decades, it should be
> good enough for standard SFTP functionality.

Right, and that is basically what the -02 draft provides. Later versions
ran off a cliff trying to support every possible FS feature for every
possible OS, which is why OpenSSH never bothered with them.

-d

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