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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
       requests	at the port indicated by the shell services specification; see
       services(5).

       Rcpd offers up files from the /tftpboot directory  (or  another	build-
       time configured directory), optionally prepending the source IP address
       (followed  by a /) to the filename specified (again, optionally config-
       ured 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 con-
       nections	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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