upstream: Mention that scp uses the SFTP protocol and remove

reference to legacy flag. Spotted by, feedback and ok jmc@

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djm@openbsd.org 2022-12-16 07:13:22 +00:00 committed by Darren Tucker
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.\"
.\" Created: Sun May 7 00:14:37 1995 ylo
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.111 2022/12/16 03:40:03 djm Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.112 2022/12/16 07:13:22 djm Exp $
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: December 16 2022 $
.Dt SCP 1
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.Nm
copies files between hosts on a network.
.Pp
It uses
.Nm
uses the SFTP protocol over a
.Xr ssh 1
for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the
same security as a login session.
connection for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides
the same security as a login session.
.Pp
.Nm
will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for
@ -111,9 +112,7 @@ Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer.
This option is directly passed to
.Xr ssh 1 .
.It Fl D Ar sftp_server_path
When using the SFTP protocol support via
.Fl M ,
connect directly to a local SFTP server program rather than a
Connect directly to a local SFTP server program rather than a
remote one via
.Xr ssh 1 .
This option may be useful in debugging the client and server.