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.\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
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.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
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.\" All rights reserved
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.\" Created: Sun May 7 00:14:37 1995 ylo
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.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.33 2004/03/05 10:53:58 markus Exp $
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.Dd September 25, 1999
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.Nd secure copy (remote file copy program)
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.Op Fl F Ar ssh_config
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.Op Fl i Ar identity_file
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.Op Fl o Ar ssh_option
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copies files between hosts on a network.
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for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the
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will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for
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Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate
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that the file is to be copied to/from that host.
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Copies between two remote hosts are permitted.
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The options are as follows:
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to use IPv4 addresses only.
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to use IPv6 addresses only.
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Selects batch mode (prevents asking for passwords or passphrases).
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to enable compression.
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Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer.
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This option is directly passed to
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.It Fl F Ar ssh_config
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Specifies an alternative
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per-user configuration file for
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This option is directly passed to
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.It Fl i Ar identity_file
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Selects the file from which the identity (private key) for RSA
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authentication is read.
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This option is directly passed to
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Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s.
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.It Fl o Ar ssh_option
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Can be used to pass options to
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in the format used in
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This is useful for specifying options
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for which there is no separate
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For full details of the options listed below, and their possible values, see
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.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
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.It ChallengeResponseAuthentication
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.It ConnectionAttempts
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.It ConnectionTimeout
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.It GlobalKnownHostsFile
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.It GSSAPIAuthentication
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.It GSSAPIDelegateCredentials
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.It HostbasedAuthentication
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.It HostKeyAlgorithms
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.It NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost
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.It NumberOfPasswordPrompts
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.It PasswordAuthentication
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.It PreferredAuthentications
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.It PubkeyAuthentication
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.It RhostsRSAAuthentication
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.It RSAAuthentication
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.It ServerAliveInterval
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.It ServerAliveCountMax
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.It StrictHostKeyChecking
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.It UsePrivilegedPort
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.It UserKnownHostsFile
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Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host.
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Note that this option is written with a capital
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is already reserved for preserving the times and modes of the file in
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Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
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Disables the progress meter.
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Recursively copy entire directories.
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to use for the encrypted connection.
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The program must understand
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to print debugging messages about their progress.
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debugging connection, authentication, and configuration problems.
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exits with 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.
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program in BSD source code from the Regents of the University of
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.An Timo Rinne Aq tri@iki.fi
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.An Tatu Ylonen Aq ylo@cs.hut.fi
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removed
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