Thank you for all the info. I feel a little more knowledgeable now... ;)
Juergen Nickelsen wrote:
> 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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