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by beerbajay 4287 days ago
Couldn't the 1MB limit be bypassed by invoking scp to transfer the files?
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Russell91 4287 days ago
yes, but using a separate scp command requires a second round trip and second password/key authentication, which would double the wait time of the already slow ssh login process.
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dnet 4287 days ago
not, if you configure multiplexing (and why wouldn't you) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Multiplexing
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JoachimSchipper 4287 days ago
As an inferior option for older OpenSSH versions, you could also forward a port and send the tarball over that.

If people regularly send large directories, you might also want to extend this with rsync.

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mixmastamyk 4287 days ago
Interesting, I wonder if python fabric or its ssh libs could help.
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