From: <tillea@rki.de>
Subject: dupload: scp/ssh method ignores USER variable
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Message-Id: <E12kkzm-0002Cu-00@wr-linux02.rki.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:54:06 +0200

Package: dupload
Version: 2.4.0.9
Severity: normal

Hello,

dupload(1) says:

       The default transfer method is FTP.  As alternate method
       SCP/SSH is supported.  For SCP/SSH the default login is
       taken from your local user name.  The SCP/SSH method only
       works, if no password is required (see ssh(1)). For
       security reasons (FTP transmits the password in clear), it
       is recommended to use SCP (yes, I know it is non-free.)

Since I installed ssh dupload obviousely uses scp method (which seems
to make sense for me).  Unfortunately it ignores the USER variable
which I set in my upload script and which worked with plain ftp.

Actually I don't know how to call scp, but I set up the USER variable
so that a "ssh -l $USER master.debian.org" works without password.

Master does allow only secure method (which makes sense of course)
but is hard to handle after a firewall.  That's why I have to use
a host outside which I have very bad connection to so I have problems
to track down the problem in more detail.

By the way the "non-free" part in the quote above is not more correct.
(I will not file this as separate bug severity wishlist, because it
should be no problem to delete this 6 words in the manual together
with the correction above.)

Thanks for maintaining this useful package

       Andreas.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux wr-linux02 2.2.15 #1 Die Apr 25 15:02:36 CEST 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages dupload depends on:
ii  libnet-perl    1.0703-3       Implementation of Internet protocols for Per
ii  perl-5.005     5.005.03-7     Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
	^^^ (Provides virtual package perl5)
perl	Not installed or no info