Debian Bug report logs - #176214
ssh: man page not explicit about overwriting and -f

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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[email protected]>

To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[email protected]>

Subject: ssh: man page not explicit about overwriting and -f

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:07:43 +0800

Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.4p1-2
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/scp.1.gz
Tags: upstream

as there is no -f option as in cp(1), the manpage should be explicit
about what happens in cases e.g. when the remote file is 444 mode,
etc.

or add a -f option.

if it indeed copies a 400 file onto a 400 file, then it breaks with
the cp tradition.  even with -p.  at least the man page should talk
about this.

if it refuses to overwrite it then it should return an error code,
etc.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.48         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                     1.2.10       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.2.5-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-4       Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-4       Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.6                 0.9.6g-9     SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                    7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.1.4-4    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* ssh/privsep_tell: 
  ssh/insecure_rshd: 
  ssh/privsep_ask: true
  ssh/ssh2_keys_merged: 
* ssh/forward_warning: 
  ssh/insecure_telnetd: 
  ssh/new_config: true
* ssh/use_old_init_script: true
* ssh/protocol2_only: true
  ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen: 
* ssh/run_sshd: false
* ssh/SUID_client: true

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