[CLUE-Tech] rcp

[David Anselmi]

Friedman, Jason wrote:
> I'm trying to rcp files from one machine to another.  All are on my
> local subnet, and all are firewall-free.
> 
> On machine1, I have an /etc/hosts.equiv file with "machine2" in it, and
> vice-versa for machine2.
> While not necessary according to the manpage, I've also added .rhosts
> files to the users on the respective machines.

Do you have an r* server running on the target machine?  Probably that 
would be set up in /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.conf.  Also, if you're 
running tcpwrappers you'll need to configure /etc/hosts.allow and 
/etc/hosts.deny correctly.

Although the r commands may be safe enough behind a firewall, you 
probably won't ever use them over the Internet.  So you might prefer to 
use commands that run over ssh.  They'll be more useful in the long run.

HTH,
Dave