RLOGIN(1)

💻 RLOGIN(1) — the remote login glow-up 💅

ok so bestie, real talk: this is the manual page for rlogin, from the General Commands Manual. Yes it's giving "vintage Unix" and yes it's a little crusty, but we're gonna read it together and you're gonna get it. periodt. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

rlogin — remote login 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

rlogin [-8EKLdx] [-e char] [-l username] host

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

rlogin starts a terminal session on a remote host, host. That's the whole vibe — you're sitting at your little terminal and suddenly you're also somewhere else. main character energy on two machines at once, honestly. 🫶

The standard Berkeley rhosts authorization mechanism is what's used to let you in. That's it, that's the gatekeeping. 💅

The options are as follows:

• -8 — the -8 option allows an eight-bit input data path at all times; otherwise parity bits get stripped, except when the remote side's stop and start characters are other than ^S/^Q. funky little exception, but ok. ✨
• -E — the -E option stops any character from being recognized as an escape character. When you use it together with the -8 option, you get a completely transparent connection. no cap, fully see-through. 🦋
• -L — the -L option lets the rlogin session run in ``litout'' mode (see tty(4)). 👀
• -d — the -d option turns on socket debugging (see setsockopt(2)) on the TCP sockets used to communicate with the remote host. ngl, this one's for the curious girlies. 🔥
• -e — the -e option lets you specify the escape character, which is ``~'' by default. you can give it as a literal character, or as an octal value in the form \nnn. 🎀

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ok so now the escape character lore, bc this is the good part:

A line of the form <escape char>. disconnects you from the remote host. bye bestie 👋

Similarly, the line <escape char>^Z will suspend the rlogin session, and <escape char><delayed-suspend char> suspends the send portion of the rlogin but allows output from the remote system. so you stop talking but you can still hear them. iconic, honestly. 💀

By default, the tilde (~'') character is the escape character, and normally control-Y (^Y'') is the delayed-suspend character. memorize those two, they're your besties. 🌸

All echoing takes place at the remote site, so that (except for delays) the rlogin is transparent. Flow control via ^S/^Q and flushing of input and output on interrupts are handled properly. ✨

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

The following environment variable is utilized by rlogin:

• TERM — determines the user's terminal type. 💜

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

rsh(1),

👑 HISTORY 👑

The rlogin command appeared in 4.2BSD. a true legend of the game, no notes. ⭐

⚠️ BUGS ⚠️

Rlogin will be replaced by telnet(1) in the near future. 😭 so enjoy her while she's here, bestie.

More of the environment should be propagated. like, more of it. we want the whole environment, not just a taste. 🙈

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and that's the page! 🌟 cute little sign-off for you: this one's from Linux NetKit (0.17), dated August 15, 1999. so it's a lil retro, and it's slaying in its own way. mwah 💅💖