Bug#198275: /usr/bin/scp: scp: no way to escape colons in pathnames

[Tyler MacDonald <faraway@ActiveState.com>]

Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4
Followup-For: Bug #198275

I was just trying to copy a folder over with a colon in it's name. Of
course, scp thought that the colon was a hostname separator and responded
with "ssh: The: Name or service not known"

So, I tried backslashing the colon, and replacing it with two colons. Both
had the exact same result.

I tried prefixing the entire pathname with a colon. That caused it to at
least stop thinking of it as a separator; the problem there was that it also
included the prefix in the path...

":The ...: No such file or directory"

I think that the best way to solve this (short of telling people not to try
to copy files with colons in their name <g>), is to make it so that if a
pathname begins with a colon, that colon is removed and the path is
considered to be part of the local filesystem.

	Cheers,
		Tyler




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.63         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                     1.4.47       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.27      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-22      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7e-3     SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.dbs-8    Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  ssh/insecure_rshd:
  ssh/user_environment_tell:
* ssh/forward_warning:
  ssh/insecure_telnetd:
  ssh/new_config: true
* ssh/use_old_init_script: true
* ssh/SUID_client: true
* ssh/disable_cr_auth: false
  ssh/ssh2_keys_merged:
* ssh/protocol2_only: true
  ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen:
* ssh/run_sshd: true