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RLOGIND(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual RLOGIND(8)
NAME
rlogind -- remote login server
SYNOPSIS
rlogind [-Daln]
DESCRIPTION
The rlogind utility is the server for the rlogin(1) program. The server
provides a remote login facility with authentication based on privileged
port numbers from trusted hosts.
Options supported by rlogind:
-D Set TCP_NODELAY socket option. This improves responsiveness at
the expense of some additional network traffic.
-a Ask hostname for verification.
-l Prevent any authentication based on the user's ``.rhosts'' file,
unless the user is logging in as the superuser.
-n Disable keep-alive messages.
The rlogind utility listens for service requests at the port indicated in
the ``login'' service specification; see services(5). When a service
request is received the following protocol is initiated:
1. The server checks the client's source port. If the port is not in
the range 512-1023, the server aborts the connection.
2. The server checks the client's source address and requests the cor-
responding host name (see gethostbyaddr(3), hosts(5) and named(8)).
If the hostname cannot be determined, the dot-notation representa-
tion of the host address is used. If the hostname is in the same
domain as the server (according to the last two components of the
domain name), or if the -a option is given, the addresses for the
hostname are requested, verifying that the name and address corre-
spond. Normal authentication is bypassed if the address verifica-
tion fails.
Once the source port and address have been checked, rlogind proceeds with
the authentication process described in rshd(8). It then allocates a
pseudo terminal (see pty(4)), and manipulates file descriptors so that
the slave half of the pseudo terminal becomes the stdin, stdout, and
stderr for a login process. The login process is an instance of the
login(1) program, invoked with the -f option if authentication has suc-
ceeded. If automatic authentication fails, the user is prompted to log
in as if on a standard terminal line.
The parent of the login process manipulates the master side of the pseudo
terminal, operating as an intermediary between the login process and the
client instance of the rlogin(1) program. In normal operation, the
packet protocol described in pty(4) is invoked to provide `^S/^Q' type
facilities and propagate interrupt signals to the remote programs. The
login process propagates the client terminal's baud rate and terminal
type, as found in the environment variable, TERM; see environ(7). The
screen or window size of the terminal is requested from the client, and
window size changes from the client are propagated to the pseudo termi-
nal.
Transport-level keepalive messages are enabled unless the -n option is
present. The use of keepalive messages allows sessions to be timed out
if the client crashes or becomes unreachable.
FILES
/etc/hosts
/etc/hosts.equiv
$HOME/.rhosts
/var/run/nologin
DIAGNOSTICS
All initial diagnostic messages are indicated by a leading byte with a
value of 1, after which any network connections are closed. If there are
no errors before login(1) is invoked, a null byte is returned as in indi-
cation of success.
Try again.
A fork(2) by the server failed.
SEE ALSO
login(1), ruserok(3), hosts(5), hosts.equiv(5), login.conf(5),
nologin(5), services(5), rshd(8)
HISTORY
The rlogind utility appeared in 4.2BSD.
IPv6 support was added by WIDE/KAME project.
BUGS
The authentication procedure used here assumes the integrity of each
client machine and the connecting medium. This is insecure, but is use-
ful in an ``open'' environment.
A facility to allow all data exchanges to be encrypted should be present.
A more extensible protocol should be used.
FreeBSD 6.2 February 9, 2005 FreeBSD 6.2
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