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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, August 31, 2003 10:58:56 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, July 27, 2002 11:19:20 am | by GavinGrieve | Revert |
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-scp is a damn cool protocol (much like rcp but with security) that allows one to transfer files between machines.
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-scp(1) is an [Acronym
] for "secure cp", and designed to be a secure replacement for rcp(1) which was well known to be insecure. scp(1) does it's copying completely over ssh(1), so if you can ssh(1) to a box, you can scp(1) to or from it. scp(1) also allows you to use authorized_keys for passwordless secure copying.
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-See: scp(1), rcp(1), ftp(1), ssh(1)
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+Describe [
scp] here
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