RCP from SCO to XP with password

[philmartin]

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

[rodney]

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.)