rlogin
User Commands rlogin(1)NAME
rlogin - remote loginSYNOPSIS
rlogin [ -8EL ] [ -ec ] [ -l username ] hostnameDESCRIPTION
rlogin establishes a remote login session from your terminal to the remote machine named hostname. Hostnames are listed in the hosts database, which may be contained in the /etc/hosts and /etc/inet/ipnodes files, the Network Information Service (NIS) hosts map, the Internet domain name server, or a combination of these. Each host has one official name (the first name in the database entry), and optionally one or more nicknames. Either official host- names or nicknames may be specified in hostname. Each remote machine may have a file named /etc/hosts.equiv" containing a list of trusted hostnames with which it shares usernames. Users with the same username on both the local and remote machine may rlogin from the machines listed in the remote machine's /etc/hosts.equiv file without supplying a password. Individual users may set up a similar private equivalence list with the file .rhosts in their home direc- tories. Each line in this file contains two names: a host- name and a username separated by a space. An entry in a remote user's .rhosts file permits the user named username who is logged into hostname to log in to the remote machine as the remote user without supplying a password. If the name of the local host is not found in the /etc/hosts.equiv file on the remote machine, and the local username and hostname are not found in the remote user's .rhosts file, then the remote machine will prompt for a password. Hostnames listed in /etc/hosts.equiv and .rhosts files must be the official hostnames listed in the hosts database; nicknames may not be used in either of these files. For security reasons, the .rhosts file must be owned by either the remote user or by root. The remote terminal type is the same as your local terminal type (as given in your environment TERM variable). The ter- minal 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 remote login is tran- sparent. Flow control using <CTRL-S> and <CTRL-Q> and flushing of input and output on interrupts are handled prop- erly. SunOS 5.8 Last change: 6 May 1999 1 User Commands rlogin(1)OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -8 Pass eight-bit data across the net instead of seven- bit data. -ec Specify a different escape character, c, for the line used to disconnect from the remote host. -E Stop any character from being recognized as an escape character. -l username Specify a different username for the remote login. If you do not use this option, the remote username used is the same as your local username. -L Allow the rlogin session to be run in "litout" mode. Escape Sequences Lines that you type which start with the tilde character are "escape sequences" (the escape character can be changed using the -e option): ~. Disconnect from the remote host. This is not the same as a logout, because the local host breaks the connec- tion with no warning to the remote end. ~susp Suspend the login session (only if you are using a shell with Job Control). susp is your "suspend" char- acter, usually <CTRL-Z>; see tty(1). ~dsusp Suspend the input half of the login, but output will still be seen (only if you are using a shell with Job Control). dsusp is your "deferred suspend" character, usually <CTRL-Y>; see tty(1).OPERANDS
hostname The remote machine on which rlogin establishes the remote login session.FILES
/etc/passwd" contains information about users' accounts /usr/hosts/* for hostname version of the command /etc/hosts.equiv" list of trusted hostnames with shared usernames SunOS 5.8 Last change: 6 May 1999 2 User Commands rlogin(1) /etc/nologin message displayed to users attempting to login during machine shutdown $HOME/.rhosts private list of trusted hostname/username combinations /etc/hosts" hosts database /etc/inet/ipnodes hosts databaseATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri- butes: ____________________________________________________________ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |_____________________________|_____________________________| | Availability | SUNWcsu | |_____________________________|_____________________________|SEE ALSO
rsh(1), stty(1), tty(1), in.named(1M), hosts(4),ipnodes(4). hosts.equiv(4), nologin(4), attributes(5)DIAGNOSTICS
The following message indicates that the machine is in the process of being shutdown and logins have been disabled: NO LOGINS: System going down in N minutesNOTES
When a system is listed in hosts.equiv, its security must be as good as local security. One insecure system listed in hosts.equiv can compromise the security of the entire sys- tem. The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP.) The functionality of the two remains the same; only the name has changed. This implementation can only use the TCP network service. SunOS 5.8 Last change: 6 May 1999 3