Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:36:24 -0500 From: Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@CS.WM.EDU> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's time for those 2048-, 3072-, and 4096-bit keys? Message-ID: <20020327143624.B23316@dali.cs.wm.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020327110100.6d638389.darklogik@pittgoth.com>; from darklogik@pittgoth.com on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:01:00AM -0500 References: <20020326185714.F22539@mail.webmonster.de> <20020326182003.F15545-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020326181634.A919@lothlorien.tangledhelix.net> <20020327074236.B86929@blackhelicopters.org> <20020327110100.6d638389.darklogik@pittgoth.com>
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:01:00AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>
> How about a nice addition to the ssh manual pages just because I do
> not think they describe things well enough. For instance, when I
> first started using scp(1), I fought like hell before I figured it
> out. I do not feel the manual page had a clear description of how
> to use scp(1). It did, however, cover the options well... I think
> that it should describe how to use protocol 2, I also think it should
> point you to a reference of the use options.
>
> Opinions?
My opinion is that this is absolutely clear to anybody who had ever read
a manual page and knows that [] stand for optional things:
SYNOPSIS
scp [-pqrvBC46] [-F ssh_config] [-S program] [-P port] [-c cipher]
[-i identity_file] [-o ssh_option] [[user@]host1:]file1 [...]
[[user@]host2:]file2
It's absolutely clear that to copy from local to remote computer one
uses:
scp file1 user@host:file2
and from remote to local
scp user@host:file1 file2
What's not clear about it?
Careful reading of other ssh man pages makes it clear how to set up your
public keys and config files. I don't have any complaints about ssh man
pages and have a very positive experience with OpenSSH setup on my
network compared with the comercial SSH about two or three years ago
(confusion with adding 2 to everything [ssh2, sshd2], total inability to
use old config files for anything, etc.)
--
Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@cs.wm.edu>
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/
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