simon-git: putty-wishlist (main): Simon Tatham

[Commits to Tartarus hosted VCS]

TL;DR:
  53895dc Wishlist entry for expanding ~ in PSCP and PSFTP.

Repository:     https://git.tartarus.org/simon/putty-wishlist.git
On the web:     https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty-wishlist.git
Branch updated: main
Committer:      Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date:           2024-12-20 11:10:47

commit 53895dcf74e40d7a65a546642b44fcde020212fe
web diff https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty-wishlist.git;a=commitdiff;h=53895dcf74e40d7a65a546642b44fcde020212fe;hp=eb1b7660da2465a6f391e536adb246f88acf2e6f
Author: Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 20 11:08:32 2024 +0000

    Wishlist entry for expanding ~ in PSCP and PSFTP.
    
    I only found out this month that OpenSSH already supports extension
    requests that make it possible. Now I know that, I'd really like it to
    work, because I'm forever typing pscp commands involving a ~user,
    forgetting they don't work, and smiting my forehead when I get an
    error!
    
    I'd hoped to squeeze this in for the upcoming 0.83 release, until I
    tried to implement it, and discovered that Ubuntu 24.04's current
    OpenSSH returns the wrong user's home directory. This is a known bug,
    fixed in later OpenSSH, but it means we need a bug flag, a workaround,
    and a lot more faff. So I think it's too much annoyance to fit in
    0.83, and instead, I'll just write up the problems for implementation
    later.

 data/sftp-tilde | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+)