NAME¶
xrlogin - start an xterm that uses ssh (or optionally rlogin or telnet) to
connect to a remote host
SYNOPSIS¶
xrlogin [-l username] [-rlogin|-telnet] [xterm options] remote-host
DESCRIPTION¶
Xrlogin opens an xterm window and runs ssh, rlogin or telnet to login to
a remote host.
Xrlogin automatically passes the -name argument to xterm with a value of
"xterm-hostname" where hostname is the name of the remote host. This
allows the user to specify resources in their server's resource manager which
are specific to xterms from a given host. For example, this feature can be
used to make all xterm windows to a given remote host be the same color or use
a specific font or start up in a specific place on the screen. Xrsh(1) passes
the same string so they are compatible in this regard.
Xrlogin specifies that the default title for the new xterm will be
"hostname" where hostname is the name of the remote host. This and
the -name argument above can be overridden with xterm-options on the command
line.
One could also use xrlogin's sister command
xrsh(1) to open a window to a remote
host. In the case of xrsh, the xterm would run on the remote host and use X as
the connection protocol while xrlogin would run the xterm on the local host
and use rlogin or telnet as the connection protocol. See
xrsh(1) for a
discussion of the merits of each scheme.
OPTIONS¶
- -l username
- When not using -telnet, use username as the id to login to the remote
host.
- -rlogin
- Use the rlogin protocol to open the connection. In general rlogin is
preferred because it can be configured to not prompt the user for a
password. Rlogin also automatically propagates window size change signals
(SIGWINCH) to the remote host so that applications running there will
learn of a new window size.
- -telnet
- Use the -telnet protocol to open the connection. Use of telnet provided
mostly for hosts that don't support rlogin.
COMMON PROBLEMS¶
Make sure that the local host is specified in the .rhosts file on the remote
host or in the remote hosts /etc/hosts.equiv file. See
rlogin(1) for more
information.
EXAMPLES¶
- xrlogin -bg red yoda
- Start a local red xterm which connects to the remote host yoda using
rlogin.
- xrlogin -telnet c70
- Open a local xterm which connects to the remote host c70 using
telnet.
SEE ALSO¶
xrsh(1),
rlogin(1),
telnet(1)
AUTHOR¶
James J. Dempsey <jjd@jjd.com> and Stephen Gildea
<gildea@intouchsys.com>.