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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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in.rlogind, rlogind Remote Login Server

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/in.rlogind

Description

The in.rlogind daemon is the server for the rlogin(1) program. The server provides a remote login facility with authentication based on privileged port numbers.

in.rlogind is invoked by inetd(1M) when a remote login connection is established, and executes the following protocol.

  • The server checks the client's source port. If the port is not in the range 0-1023, the server aborts the connection.

  • The server checks the client's source address. If an entry for the client exists in both /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.equiv, a user logging in from the client is not prompted for a password. If the address is associated with a host for which no corresponding entry exists ...

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