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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:22:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        "Steven E. Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rcp -x
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000913181820.31488M-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <078601c01dc9$e857bcf0$8a1a050a@winstar.com>

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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be out of date.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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