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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:07:28 -0500
From: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: rcp -x
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000913181820.31488M-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:22:53PM -0400
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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 be out of date.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 
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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