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RCP from SCO to XP with password
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 RCP from SCO to XP with password - Sep. 3, '05, 9:03:15 PM
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philmartin
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Native Windows XP rcp.exe does not have a password prompt as far as I can see. I require a rcp.exe to copy a file from Sco to my XP pc. I did have this program that was part Sun pcnfs (V5.0) a few years ago.
I need to run a scheduled batch job each night from a command line being.
rcp.exe 192.168.5.33 -user root -pass house55 /tmp/backup c:\temp\backup
(assuming house55 is the password for root)
(/tmp/backup is the file I need to copy to c:\temp)
Can anyone help as I do not want to install any software on this Xp machine.
Thks
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RE: RCP from SCO to XP with password - Sep. 3, '05, 11:22:47 PM
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Rodney
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Well, I wouldn't be using the "root" account to do this.
That's just asking for a security problem to happen.
I'd set up another special account to do this if possible.
If that's not possible then set up a cron job with the root account to make the
backup file and then assign file permissions to the lower privileged account.
Then for the lower privilged account I'd set the "~/.rhosts" account to allow
access from the said windows machine. Then no password will be needed at all.
Yes, the "~/.rhosts" file affects rcp as well as rsh & rlogin.
(Note: I'm not really supporting this methodology, just providing a solution within
the parameters given. My preference is something more secure even when it does involve
installing software. And I would encourage you to so as well.)
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