From 81e78d0ffb34b000b9bd07e1dcf1ffd671cd48f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 01:09:54 +0000
Subject: mention that IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets;
 bz#1845

---
 usr.bin/ssh/sftp.1 | 8 ++++++--
 1 file 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
 The options are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Fl 1
-- 
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