Robert,
Thanks for the explanation. That wasn't clear from the manpage. SSH
sounds like the better path for me.
-Steve
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:22:53PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> The -x options on rsh, rcp, and rlogin rely on Kerberos support, which it
> appears you haven't installed.
>
> (example w/o kerberos installed)
> > rcp -x
> rcp: illegal option -- x
> usage: rcp [-p] f1 f2
> rcp [-pr] f1 ... fn directory
>
> (example w/kerberos installed)
> > rcp -x
> usage: rcp [-Kpx] [-k realm] f1 f2
> rcp [-Kprx] [-k realm] f1 ... fn directory
>
> There's a tutorial on setting up Kerberos in the handbook, although it may
> be out of date. However, Kerberos involves substantial administrative
> overhead -- if you're not interested in that, try using SSH.
>
> Robert N M Watson
>
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>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Steven E. Ames wrote:
>
> > The man page for rcp(1) lists a '-x' option:
> >
> > -x Turn on DES encryption for all data passed by rcp. This may
> > im-
> > pact response time and CPU utilization, but provides
> > increased
> > security.
> >
> > But the command line doesn't seem to honor it?
> >
> > winrad3# rcp -x
> > rcp: illegal option -- x
> > usage: rcp [-p] f1 f2
> > rcp [-pr] f1 ... fn directory
> >
> > ditto -K and -k.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> >
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