It is (will be) deprecated but not removed for now.
A replacement with a very similar interface is in process of being made. But it will not have all features scp had.
You can't fix the protocol because people rely on it's exact behavior including the parts which have security problems. E.g. people rely on backtick expansion to run a command in the ssh session before the copy. But this also can lead to injection vulnerabilities in management scripts.
A replacement with a very similar interface is in process of being made. But it will not have all features scp had.
You can't fix the protocol because people rely on it's exact behavior including the parts which have security problems. E.g. people rely on backtick expansion to run a command in the ssh session before the copy. But this also can lead to injection vulnerabilities in management scripts.