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RCPD(1) 		     General Commands Manual			 RCPD(1)

NAME
     rcpd - remote file copy daemon

SYNOPSIS
     rcpd [ -a -n ]

DESCRIPTION
     The  Rcpd exists to copy files between machines. It listens for service re-
     quests at the port indicated by the shell services specification; see  ser-
     vices(5).

     Rcpd  offers  up  files from the /tftpboot directory (or another build-time
     configured directory), optionally prepending the source  IP  address  (fol-
     lowed  by	a  /) to the filename specified (again, optionally configured at
     build-time. The default is not to do this).

     Rcpd tries to offer the same security model as tftpd  by  only  writing  to
     files  that  exist  and  are  writable by user nobody and only reading from
     files that are readably by user nobody.

     If the -a option is specified, hostnames are reverse-resolved  and  connec-
     tions are aborted if addresses and names are not consistent.

     Transport-level  keepalive  messages  are	enabled  unless the -n option is
     present. This is probably entirely irrelevent for rcpd.

SEE ALSO
     cp(1), ftp(1), rcp(1), rsh(1), rlogin(1), rshd(8)

HISTORY
     The rcp utility appeared in 4.2BSD. The rcpd utility is based on the 4.4BSD
     (Lite) versions of rcp and rshd.  rcpd was written by John  Hawkinson;  the
     idea for this came from a discussion with Bill Fenner.

BUGS
     Prevents you from running an rshd.

     Doesn't  have very elaborate negotiation, but it's a damn sight better than
     tftp.

4.2 Berkeley Distribution	 April 27, 1996 			 RCPD(1)

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