Re: Do we have standards available for scp ??

[Daniel Prevett <dprevett%swcp.com@localhost>]

I was under the impression that scp2 was a truncated sftp client, and that
scp1 was rcp over ssh.  I know that OpenSSH's implementation of scp can
use either an ssh1 or ssh2 connection, but that everyone else's
implementation of scp that uses ssh2 uses the sftp subsystem.  Could we
clarify which one we are talking about here?

Thanks,

-Daniel

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> Ran, 
> 
> There is no rcp RFC; rcp runs over rsh.  As I understand it, the rcp
> client uses the rsh protocol to invoke rcp on the server, then the two
> rcp's talk to each other over the rsh channel.
> 
> scp is just rcp over ssh -- scp uses ssh to invoke another scp on the
> server, then the two scp's talk over the ssh channel using the exact
> same protocol.
> 
> A historic or informational document on the existing practice of scp
> is very much within scope for the working group; if this means that
> the IETF community also gets an rcp document "for free", even better.
> 
> 						- Bill
>