[HPR-888] ssh: use sftp by default for transferring files #160
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Recently Windows's SSH server implementation has changed the way they set the MOTW on the receiving end for file transfers, which coupled with the way Packer invokes the command, causes the transfers to fail since the command exits with a non-zero error code.
While this is going to be fixed in an upcoming release, we are changing the default method for transferring data from the host to the guest from scp to sftp.
This is motivated in part by the aforementioned problem with Windows's SSH server, but also by a decision on the OpenSSH part, where with version 9, they also decided to not use scp the protocol for sending/receiving files, and even when using the `scp' client, the protocol would default to sftp.
Given both decisions, coupled with the fact that scp is insecure and obsolete, we change the default method for transferring files between endpoints to sftp by default.