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.