NAME
rlogin - remote login
SYNOPSIS
rlogin [-8EL] [-e char] [-l username] rhost
rhost [-8EL] [-e char] [-l username]
DESCRIPTION
Rlogin connects your terminal on the current local host sys-
tem 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(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 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 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 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; other-
wise parity bits are stripped except when the remote side's
stop and start characters are other than ^S/^Q. The argu-
ment -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 ALSO
rsh(1), rhosts(5).
BUGS
More of the environment should be propagated.