Internet Services Berkeley (Communication between UNIX Systems)

Remote Copy (rcp)
 This program is used to copy files and directories from one UNIX system to another. To copy /tmp/krsort.c from system1 to system2, you could do the following:
$ rcp   system2:/tmp/krsort.c  /tmp/krsort.c
					

Some networking configuration needs to be made to files to get this level of functionality. In this example, the user who issues the command is considered “equivalent” on both systems and has permission to copy files from one system to the other with rcp. (These terms are described shortly).

Remote login (rlogin)
 Supports login to a remote UNIX system. To remotely log in to system2 from system1, you would do the following:
$ rlogin system2 password: Welcome to system2 ...

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