rcp

[Kevin Buettner]

On Oct 19,  4:44pm, Don Harrop wrote:

> 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?

Assuming that you have the login line enabled in your inetd.conf, and
you have the necessary binaries on both systems, and you have an entry
in your .rhosts file on the remote machine, it should just work.

If you can't make it work, here are some other ideas:

 - rsync (though this will still require either rsh or ssh)
 - create a tar file and ftp it
 - mount the remote filesystem w/ NFS and use ``cp -a'' to
   copy your data over.

Kevin