From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 15:23: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1B737B423 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA38200; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:22:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:22:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "Steven E. Ames" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcp -x In-Reply-To: <078601c01dc9$e857bcf0$8a1a050a@winstar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 fn directory There's a tutorial on setting up Kerberos in the handbook, although it may be out of date.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 robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message