rlogin(TC)                      19 June 1992                      rlogin(TC)


 Name

    rlogin - remote login

 Syntax

    rlogin rhost [ -ec ] [ -8 ] [ -L ] [ -l username ]
    /usr/hosts/rhost [ -ec ] [ -8 ] [ -L ] [ -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 rcmd(TC).)  When you rlogin as the same user on an
    equivalent host, you do not need to give a password.  Users may also have
    a private equivalence list in a file .rhosts in their login directories.
    Each line in this file should contain an 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 a login and password will be prompted for on the remote ma-
    chine as in login(C).  To avoid some security problems, the .rhosts file
    must be owned by either the remote user or root.

    The remote terminal type is the same as your local terminal type (as
    given in your environment TERM variable).  The terminal or window size is
    also copied to the remote system if the server supports the option, and
    changes in size are reflected as well.  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 input
    data path at all times; otherwise parity bits are stripped except when
    the remote side's stop and start characters are other than ^S/^Q.  The
    argument -L allows the rlogin session to be run in without any output
    post-processing, (for example, stty -opost.)  A line of the form ``.''
    disconnects from the remote host, where ``~'' is the escape character.  A
    different escape character may be specified by the -e option.  There is
    no space separating this option flag and the argument character.

 Files

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

 Notes

    More of the environment should be propagated.

 See also

    rcmd(TC), rlogind(ADMN), rhosts(SFF).