NAME

rlogin − remote login (includes AFS extensions)

SYNOPSIS

rlogin rhost [ −ec ] [ −8 ] [ −v ] [ −l username ]
rhost [ −ec ] [ −8 ] [ −v ] [ −l username ]

DESCRIPTION

Rlogin connects your terminal on the current local host system lhost to the remote host system rhost. 

Each host has a file /etc/hosts.equiv which contains a list of rhost’s with which it shares account names.  (The host names must be the standard names as described in rsh(1C).) When you rlogin as the same user on an equivalent host, you don’t need to give a password.  Each user may also have a private equivalence list in a file .rhosts in his login directory.  Each line in this file should contain a rhost and a username separated by a space, giving additional cases where logins without passwords are to be permitted.  If the originating user is not equivalent to the remote user, then the remote machine will prompt for a login and password, as in login(1). To avoid some security problems, the .rhosts file must be owned by either the remote user or root and may not be a symbolic link.

If the system is running with Andrew File System authentication and the −v option is specified, file server authentication is also done.  This is done automatically if the environment variable AUTH is set to "viceii."

Your remote terminal type is the same as your local terminal type (as given in your environment variable TERM).  All echoing takes place at the remote site, so that (except for delays) the rlogin is transparent.  Flow control via ^S and ^Q and flushing of input and output on interrupts are handled properly.  The optional argument −8 allows an eight-bit data path, otherwise parity bits are stripped.  A line of the form “~.” disconnects from the remote host, where “~” is the escape character.  Similarly, the line “~^Z” (where ^Z, control-Z, is the suspend character) will suspend the rlogin session.  Substitution of the delayed-suspend character (normally ^Y) for the suspend character suspends the send portion of the rlogin, but allows output from the remote system.  A different escape character may be specified by the −e option.  There is no space separating this option flag and the argument character. 

The -l option allows you to login with a different user id on the remote host. 

FILES

/usr/hosts/∗ for rhost version of the command

SEE ALSO

rsh(1C)

BUGS

More terminal characteristics should be propagated. 

If you attempt to make an authenticated connection (either by -v option or setenv AUTH viceii) to a host that does not use Andrew file system authentication, it sometimes does not work. 
 
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PRPQs 5799-WZQ/5799-PFF: IBM/4.3  —  Sept 1988