5 .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
7 .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
8 .\" All rights reserved
10 .\" Created: Sun May 7 00:14:37 1995 ylo
14 .Dd September 25, 1999
19 .Nd secure copy (remote file copy program)
25 .Op Fl i Ar identity_file
41 copies files between hosts on a network.
44 for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the
50 will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for
53 Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate
54 that the file is to be copied to/from that host.
55 Copies between two remote hosts are permitted.
57 The options are as follows:
60 Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer.
61 This option is directly passed to
63 .It Fl i Ar identity_file
64 Selects the file from which the identity (private key) for RSA
65 authentication is read.
66 This option is directly passed to
69 Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
72 Recursively copy entire directories.
79 to print debugging messages about their progress.
81 debugging connection, authentication, and configuration problems.
83 Selects batch mode (prevents asking for passwords or passphrases).
85 Disables the progress meter.
92 to enable compression.
94 Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host.
95 Note that this option is written with a capital
99 is already reserved for preserving the times and modes of the file in
104 to use IPv4 addresses only.
108 to use IPv6 addresses only.
111 Timo Rinne <tri@iki.fi> and Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
116 program in BSD source code from the Regents of the University of