Are you able to use the root account?

On 20 Oct 2000, Bill Warner wrote:

> things rcp needs
> 
> both machines need to be knowen to each other
> either in dns or /etc/hosts
> 
> it is easiest if both have same account name otherwise you will need the
> -l username
> option
> 
> need to have a line in ~/.rhosts like
> <hostname> <username>
> 
> ~/.rhosts MUST be chmod 600
> 
> with all this set up you should be able to get setup and working.
> 
> Bill Warner
> 
> 
> > Hey guys..  I just got my hands on a old Caldera 1.1 box.  I need to get
> > some data off of it and would like to use rcp because it's already on the
> > system but it doesn't do authentication like scp does.  I've been spoiled
> > I know..  I could install OpenSSH and just do it the way I've always done
> > it but I'd like to learn something here..  What needs to be set for rcp to
> > do it's stuff?
> > 
> > Don
> > 
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