remote login daemon
rlogind [-aln]
The rlogind daemon is the server for the rlogin utility. The daemon provides a remote login facility with authentication based on privileged port numbers from trusted hosts.
The rlogind daemon listens for service requests at the port indicated in the login entry of the services file. When a service request is received, the following protocol is initiated:
Once the source port and address have been checked, rlogind proceeds with the authentication process described in rshd. It then allocates a pseudo terminal, and manipulates file descriptors so that the slave half of the pseudo terminal becomes the standard input, standard output, and standard error for a login process.
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 rlogin. In most cases, ``^S/^Q'' facilities are provided to propagate interrupt signals to the remote programs. The login process propagates the client terminal's baud rate and terminal type, as found in the TERM environment variable. 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 terminal.
Transport-level keepalive messages, which are enabled unless -n is given, allow sessions to be timed out if the client crashes or becomes unreachable.
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 is invoked, a NULL byte is returned as an indication of success.
The authentication procedure used here assumes the integrity of each client machine and the connecting medium. This is insecure, but useful in an ``open'' environment.
Dev.pty, login, rshd, ruserok(), /etc/services file