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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!netnews.com!netaxs.com!socko.cdnow.com!heller From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Difference between rlogin and telnet Date: 30 May 1997 19:08:07 GMT Organization: CDnow - The World's Largest Online Music Store http://cdnow.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5mn8in$dve@netaxs.com> References: <864993028.196308@reef.island.net.au> <5mmvkd$8kq@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com NNTP-Posting-Host: socko.cdnow.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41917 Brian Somers (brian@shift.utell.net) wrote: : In article <864993028.196308@reef.island.net.au>, : hugh@island.net.au (Hugh Blandford) writes: : > : > I am trying to understand the difference between rlogin and telnet. In the man : Rlogin allows you to log into remote machines without a password : if you setup your .rhosts (et al) file - the same files used by : rsh and rcp. : Rlogin, rsh and rcp are security risks however. I've just set up : ssh - a secure shell (from the ports) after about 100 suggestions : from freebsd-hackers :I .... it's pretty cool. Works on the same : basis as PGP. You can do everything that rlogin/rsh/rcp can do, : only over an encrypted link. I believe rlogin also passes some terminal information that telnet does not. Over the years, I've had problems with terminal settings when connecting, say, from a bsd box to a solaris box. If I use rlogin, everything works as it should.