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Bug 331217

Summary: [scp] When creating an "SSH Only" connection, scp should not be selected by default
Product: [Tools] Target Management Reporter: Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>
Component: RSEAssignee: Anna Dushistova <anna.dushistova>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: anna.dushistova, apitigoi, dan, krapfenbauer, lothar, nikita_shulga
Version: 3.3Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: 3.3 M4   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Depends on: 213438    
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Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2010-11-26 10:32:26 EST
With the new SCP plugin installed, when I create an "SSH Only" connection the scp file subsystem is selected by default.

This might be a problem when scp gets mature and integrated into RSE-runtime. Since many existing users of RSE will be used to creating "SSH Only" connections, but for a fact (and because of the conceptual transfer method), the SFTP connection is more reliable than SCP.

We need to find a way of integrating scp with the standard RSE-runtime while making sure that we don't break existing adopters. Following ideas might work:

(a) just change order of subsystems in the wizard, giving scp lower priority
(b) invent a fallback where sftp is tried first, with a fallback to scp when it
    fails
(c) Don't register scp into the "SSH Only" system type by default, but provide
    a separate and different system type
Comment 1 Anna Dushistova CLA 2010-11-30 11:29:43 EST
Martin, I changed the priority to 120, and it's now not selected by default.
Let me know if you want it to be fixed differently.