30 Jun
2008
30 Jun
'08
12:05 a.m.
Donal K. Fellows wrote:
Steven Newhouse wrote:
It was discussed in the working group. My recollection was that there was no defined 'standard' mechanism for embedding a username and password into an scp uri. Therefore we did not feel happy specifying one.
I'd have thought in that case that going with the "generic URI" format for usernames and passwords would be the right thing then, leading to:
scp://user:pass@host.com/path/to/file
This is basically the format described in: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-scp-sftp-ssh-uri-01 (minus many complicated bits). Though that never progressed beyond draft, it's probably as good a point to start from as anywhere. Donal.