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From: harkin@hpindda.HP.COM (Art Harkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: USRCONTRB for 7.0 (Was Re: 7.0 + Yellow Page + rcp BUG / monitor for 7.0 ?)
Message-ID: <4310129@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 90 17:03:59 GMT
References: <1990Jul18.154933.12205@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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original message:

   | I've found a bug with Yellow Pages + HP-UX 7.0 (Series 300) + the rcp
   | command.
   | Our hosts.equiv has +@our_cluster_groups in it, allowing anyone to copy
   | a file to any other machine using the syntax:
   |
   | rcp host.username:filename filename
   |
   | However, this command now fails with HP-UX 7.0 if Yellow Pages is running
   | with the error 'rcmd: host.username: Unknown host'.
   |

edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) replies:

 >  Hmm, I think you missed something. In 7.0, HP has changed the "rcp" command
 >  syntax: a remote user at some machine is now specified as "user@host".
 >  (Well done HP, I hated the "host.user" syntax!)
 >  So, your command should have been:

 >  		rcp username@host:filename filename

 >  Please verify this in the HP-UX 7.0 "Networking Reference" manual.

Just for your info,

     <host>.<user>:<fname>  is a 4.2BSD implementation
     <user>@<host>:<fname>  is a 4.3BSD change 

     The reason for the change is because 1) BIND (name services) 
     was implemented and thus <host>.<user> looks like <hostname>.<domain>,
     2) the new method is more consistent with user/host addressing methods.

     Art Harkin
     HP