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37 .Nd remote login server
45 program. The server provides a remote login facility
46 with authentication based on privileged port numbers from trusted hosts.
50 .Bl -tag -width indent
52 Set TCP_NODELAY socket option. This improves responsiveness at the expense of
53 some additional network traffic.
55 Ask hostname for verification.
57 Prevent any authentication based on the user's
59 file, unless the user is logging in as the superuser.
61 Disable keep-alive messages.
64 The following options are valid only if Kerberos is in use:
65 .Bl -tag -width indent
67 Enable Kerberos authentication.
73 encryption for all data passed via the rlogin
74 session. This may impact response time
77 utilization, but provides increased security.
81 listens for service requests at the port indicated in
84 service specification; see
86 When a service request is received the following protocol
90 The server checks the client's source port.
91 If the port is not in the range 512-1023, the server
92 aborts the connection.
94 The server checks the client's source address
95 and requests the corresponding host name (see
100 If the hostname cannot be determined,
101 the dot-notation representation of the host address is used.
102 If the hostname is in the same domain as the server (according to
103 the last two components of the domain name),
107 the addresses for the hostname are requested,
108 verifying that the name and address correspond.
109 Normal authentication is bypassed if the address verification fails.
112 Once the source port and address have been checked,
114 proceeds with the authentication process described in
116 It then allocates a pseudo terminal (see
118 and manipulates file descriptors so that the slave
119 half of the pseudo terminal becomes the
125 The login process is an instance of the
127 program, invoked with the
129 option if authentication has succeeded.
130 If automatic authentication fails, the user is
131 prompted to log in as if on a standard terminal line.
133 The parent of the login process manipulates the master side of
134 the pseudo terminal, operating as an intermediary
135 between the login process and the client instance of the
137 program. In normal operation, the packet protocol described
140 is invoked to provide
142 type facilities and propagate
143 interrupt signals to the remote programs. The login process
144 propagates the client terminal's baud rate and terminal type,
145 as found in the environment variable,
149 The screen or window size of the terminal is requested from the client,
150 and window size changes from the client are propagated to the pseudo terminal.
152 Transport-level keepalive messages are enabled unless the
155 The use of keepalive messages allows sessions to be timed out
156 if the client crashes or becomes unreachable.
158 .Bl -tag -width /etc/hostsxxxxxxxx -compact
160 .It Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
161 .It Ev $HOME Ns Pa /.rhosts
162 .It Pa /var/run/nologin
165 All initial diagnostic messages are indicated
166 by a leading byte with a value of 1,
167 after which any network connections are closed.
168 If there are no errors before
170 is invoked, a null byte is returned as in indication of success.
175 by the server failed.
192 IPv6 support was added by WIDE/KAME project.
194 The authentication procedure used here assumes the integrity
195 of each client machine and the connecting medium. This is
196 insecure, but is useful in an
200 A facility to allow all data exchanges to be encrypted should be
203 A more extensible protocol should be used.