.rhosts

[Tony Reeves]

Need help with a problem. We have a SCO Unix system that is located 
remote from our main system, a Sequent S81 running Dynix. We do some
file transfers remotely by SCO (lets call the machine Fred and the S81 
mary) to the S81. What we do now is use a cpio command and the sco rcmd
command. Here is the problem. My management wants me to stop using .rhosts
as the permission for  this transfer. fred's transfer is from the root 
account. If I remove the .rhosts from mary, then fred gets permmission
denied. Useing hosts.equiv will not work since fred's root account cannot 
be there. Or can it? what other method can rcmd be used to do this 
cpio transfer?