Re: SCP under SSH2

[pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost (Peter Gutmann)]

Jon Bright <jon%siliconcircus.com@localhost>
>Claudio Robles wrote:
>>  I have read all the drafts and found no mention to SCP.
>
>The protocol never got standardised (at least, never got standardised as scp
>- and I don't believe it ever got standardised as rcp either).

Yup, you need to find someone else's source and read it to reverse-engineer
the protocol details.  However before doing that, two questions:

1. Why do you need to run scp under SSHv2?
2. If there's really some need for this, why not tunnel rcp over SSH?

Peter.