what is scp?

[lin.chen]

could tell me what is scp?
Is scp more efficient than FTP?
thanks!

[Ivan Krastev]

Scp - secure copy between hosts. See more info and examples - http://acs.ucsd.edu/info/scp.php


regards,
ivan

[Pete Randall]

scp is the secure shell version of rcp (remote copy). I doubt that it is more efficient, owing to the time required to encrypt the data to be transmitted, but is is obviously more secure.


Pete

[Steven Schweda]

man scp

It's more secure. I don't know why it would
be more efficient.

[Coolmar]

It stands for secure copy. I use it all the time and find it much better than FTP. I find it faster and it is more secure. Say you have a file on hostA that you want to get to hostB

# scp -p file hostb:/destination

You then see it copy and the % complete.
I highly recommend it.

[spex]

Hi,

The main advantage to using 'scp' is security: in-flight data are encrypted. Because of this, 'scp' incurs overhead that 'ftp' does not, making it less efficient for file transfer.

PCS

[S.Rider]

scp is definetly slower than rcp.
fcp (part of FSH "Fast Remote Shell" which is on the Internet Express CD's) uses the same security keys as scp but it almost as fast as rcp.