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)
26 .Op Fl i Ar identity_file
42 copies files between hosts on a network.
45 for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the
51 will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for
54 Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate
55 that the file is to be copied to/from that host.
56 Copies between two remote hosts are permitted.
58 The options are as follows:
61 Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer.
62 This option is directly passed to
64 .It Fl i Ar identity_file
65 Selects the file from which the identity (private key) for RSA
66 authentication is read.
67 This option is directly passed to
70 Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
73 Recursively copy entire directories.
80 to print debugging messages about their progress.
82 debugging connection, authentication, and configuration problems.
84 Selects batch mode (prevents asking for passwords or passphrases).
86 Disables the progress meter.
93 to enable compression.
95 Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host.
96 Note that this option is written with a capital
100 is already reserved for preserving the times and modes of the file in
105 to use for the encrypted connection. The program must understand
111 to use IPv4 addresses only.
115 to use IPv6 addresses only.
118 Timo Rinne <tri@iki.fi> and Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
123 program in BSD source code from the Regents of the University of