RLOGIN(1)RLOGIN(1)NAMErlogin - remote login
SYNOPSISrlogin [-8EL] [-e char] [-l username] rhost
rhost [-8EL] [-e char] [-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 stan‐
dard names as described in rsh(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 an rhost and a user‐
name separated by a space, giving additional cases where logins without
passwords are to be permitted. If the originating user is not equiva‐
lent 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 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 inter‐
rupts 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. 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. With the -E option the escape
can be turned off.
SEE ALSOrsh(1), rhosts(5).
BUGS
More of the environment should be propagated.
4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 12, 1986 RLOGIN(1)
