Consider scp (SSH's secure copy), with host keys.

<bfay@deepcosmos.ca> wrote in message
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> Hello Group,
>
> Is there a way to transfer a file between systems automatically?
> What I need is a script started by cron. This script would be run at
> night to transfer a file to another system. I could have wrote a
> script using rcp and .rhosts but I don't find it secure enough.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> my platform is AIX 5.2.
>
> thanks,
> Bernard
>