Re: sftp annoyance !

From: Per Hedeland (per_at_hedeland.org)
Date: 11/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:59:40 +0000 (UTC)

In article <pan.2005.11.21.00.01.55.173256@way.cc> Unknown <nope@way.cc>
writes:
>I cant be the only person in the world to run a number of ssh servers not
>on the default port (for policy and firewall reasons).
>
>with the main ssh client I can use
>
> ssh -p<myport> user@host.domain
>
>BUT with sftp
>
> sftp -oPort=<myport> user@host.domain
>
>Now this sucks !!! Its difficult to remember if you haven't used sftp
>for a while and its inconsistent. Any chance one of the developers could
>think about adding -p to sftp, I know it has a "-P" option, but *nix is
>case sensitive so what the hell :-)

Well, sftp (and ssh) would still be inconsistent with scp... If you want
consistency, you can use -oPort=<myport> for all three!:-)

--Per Hedeland
per@hedeland.org

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