NAME

rlogin − remote login

SYNOPSIS

rlogin rhost [ −ec ] [ −l username ]
rhost [ −ec ] [ −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 which which it shares account names.  (The host names must be the standard names as described in rsh(1C) and printed by login(1).) 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 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 and may not be a symbolic link.

Your remote terminal type is the same as your local terminal type (as given in your environment TERM variable).  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.  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. 

SEE ALSO

rsh(1C)

FILES

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

BUGS

More terminal characteristics should be propagated. 

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  10 February 1983