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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1 index 6a365a41dc8..25a9b8a4877 100644 --- a/usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1 +++ b/usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sftp.1,v 1.22 2001/08/14 09:23:02 markus Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sftp.1,v 1.23 2001/08/14 17:54:29 stevesk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2001 Damien Miller. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -78,8 +78,16 @@ Enables compression (via ssh's .Fl C flag) .It Fl o Ar ssh_option -Specify an option to be directly passed to -.Xr ssh 1 . +Can be used to pass options to +.Nm ssh +in the format used in the +.Xr ssh 1 +configuration file. This is useful for specifying options +for which there is no separate +.Nm sftp +command-line flag. For example, to force the use of protocol +version 1 you may specify +.Ic sftp -oProtocol=1 . .It Fl v Raise logging level. This option is also passed to ssh. .El |