Ed Costa wrote:
> What will be the difference if I:
>
> 1. telnet 185.12.50.1 nad then login as eco
> 2. rlogin -l eco 185.12.50.1
Not much. Telnet is the Internet standard for interactive login on a
different host. (The first discussions on Telnet in the RFCs date from
1971; the standard for the Telnet protocol is in RFC 854 from 1983.) The
Telnet protocol is meant to be platform independent and has indeed been
implemented on a wide variety of platforms.
rlogin belongs to the BSD suite of "remote" commands -- rlogin, rsh,
rcp. Although there are occasionally implementations for other operating
systems (e. g. a rsh daemon for Windows NT), they are fairly
Unix-specific. They allow access from trusted hosts and accounts without
password, if these accounts are mentioned in $HOME/.rhosts. More
recently, Kerberos support has been added (i. e. more recent than 4.3
BSD, I think :-).
>From the user's point of view there is actually not much difference
except the r* feature of allowing remote login (or remote execution or
copy) without the password. If you use this, be sure that you *really*
trust the hosts you allow access from.
Greetings, Juergen.
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