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authorDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-05-06 01:09:54 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-05-06 01:09:54 +0000
commit81e78d0ffb34b000b9bd07e1dcf1ffd671cd48f2 (patch)
treea01514cf589feaca75f8b642265f914143ebe150
parent7fc7ef52f2f0e907dc1eda4e55b413c9dbcbca08 (diff)
mention that IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets;
bz#1845
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ssh/sftp.18
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1
index 89b5d3544dd..3b6ee38904b 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sftp.1,v 1.88 2010/12/04 00:18:01 djm Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sftp.1,v 1.89 2011/05/06 01:09:53 djm Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Damien Miller. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 4 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 6 2011 $
.Dt SFTP 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ to obviate the need to enter a password at connection time (see
and
.Xr ssh-keygen 1
for details).
+.Pp
+Since some usage formats use colon characters to delimit host names from path
+names, IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets to avoid ambiguity.
+.Pp
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