[Eug-lug] Sun RPC vs Debian

[larry price]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:00:38 -0800, Allen Brown <allen_brown at agilent.com> wrote:
> I need to be able to use the commands that I think are called
> Sun RPC.  I am referring to the commands rlogin, rcp, etc.
> 
> I know these commands are insecure.  I am inside a corporate
> firewall trying to talk with computers that are running HPUX.
> And the admins of those systems are sometimes reluctant to
> install ssh.  But I need to be able to rsync to these
> computers via a cron job.
> 
> RedHat installed these commands.  They worked just fine.
> 
> Debian does not install them.  Instead it installs ssh
> right over those program names.  And ssh wants to use
> port 22.  Wrong port for this protocol.
> 
> I did a apt-cache search for rpc and rcp.  If the rpc
> commands are there, I sure don't recognize them.  What
> should I find?  How can I solve this problem?
> --

If you need to rsync from these HPUX machines, you could try something
along the lines of

rsync -av --rsh='telnet otherhost'  foo/ otherhost:/bar/baz/qux

but i would get the HP/UX admin to tell you their preferred procedure
(who knows they may have changed their mind about ssh)