Name
rlogind
Synopsis
in.rlogind [options]TCP/IP command. Server for the rlogin program, providing a remote login facility, with authentication based on privileged port numbers from trusted hosts. rlogind is invoked by inetd when a remote login connection is requested. The login process propagates the client terminal’s baud rate and terminal type as found in the TERM environment variable.
Options
- -a
Verify hostname.
- -h
Permit superuser .rhosts files to be used. Ignored if pluggable authentication module (PAM) support is enabled. Control through /etc/pam.conf instead.
- -l
Do not authenticate hosts via a nonroot .rhosts file. Ignored if pluggable authentication module (PAM) support is enabled. Control through /etc/pam.conf instead.
- -L
Do not authenticate hosts via .rhosts or hosts.equiv files. Ignored if pluggable authentication module (PAM) support is enabled. Control through /etc/pam.conf instead.
- -n
Suppress keep-alive messages.
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