NAME

rlogin − remote login

SYNOPSIS

rlogin 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 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 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 machine as in login(1). 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 TERM value “wsiris” is converted to “rwsiris” when sent to the host.  If TERM is “iris-ansi”, rlogin sets the remote shell’s TERM to “iris-ansi-net”.  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 litout mode.  A line of the form “~.” disconnects from the remote host, where “~” is the escape character.  A line starting with “\~ !” starts a shell on the IRIS.  A different escape character may be specified by the −e option.  There is no space separating this option flag and the argument character.  See rlogind (1M) for enhancements to the environment propagation. 

EXAMPLE

In this example, by linking one file to another, if you execute “olympus”, you are automatically rlogged into olympus:
ln -s /usr/bin/rlogin  /usr/local/bin/olympus

SEE ALSO

rsh(1C)

BUGS

More of the environment should be propagated. 

Version 3.6  —  December 20, 1987