[ale] rsh vs rlogin

George Nies gnies at mindspring.com
Sat Jan 3 20:54:18 EST 1998


Robert L Harris wrote:
> 
>   Does anyone have a quick "whats the diff between rsh and rlogin"?

I'll bite.

rlogin is an interactive connection based on pseudo-terminals
(much like telnet)

rsh allows you to run a command on another host, but stdin, stdout,
and stderr are re-directed back to you.

If you start a rsh to a machine without a command to be run, most
implementations will exec rlogin for you.

	-George






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