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                     36: .Dd July 24, 1991
                     37: .Dt RSH 1
1.5       aaron      38: .Os
1.1       deraadt    39: .Sh NAME
                     40: .Nm rsh
                     41: .Nd remote shell
                     42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     43: .Nm rsh
                     44: .Op Fl Kdnx
                     45: .Op Fl k Ar realm
                     46: .Op Fl l Ar username
1.7       aaron      47: .Ar hostname
1.4       aaron      48: .Op Ar command
1.1       deraadt    49: .Sh DESCRIPTION
1.6       aaron      50: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    51: executes
                     52: .Ar command
                     53: on
1.7       aaron      54: .Ar hostname .
1.1       deraadt    55: .Pp
1.6       aaron      56: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    57: copies its standard input to the remote command, the standard
                     58: output of the remote command to its standard output, and the
                     59: standard error of the remote command to its standard error.
                     60: Interrupt, quit and terminate signals are propagated to the remote
                     61: command;
1.6       aaron      62: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    63: normally terminates when the remote command does.
1.6       aaron      64: .Pp
1.1       deraadt    65: The options are as follows:
1.8     ! aaron      66: .Bl -tag -width Ds
1.1       deraadt    67: .It Fl K
1.7       aaron      68: Disable all Kerberos authentication.
1.1       deraadt    69: .It Fl d
1.7       aaron      70: Enable socket debugging (using
1.6       aaron      71: .Xr setsockopt 2 )
1.1       deraadt    72: on the
                     73: .Tn TCP
                     74: sockets used for communication with the remote host.
                     75: .It Fl k
1.7       aaron      76: Causes
1.6       aaron      77: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    78: to obtain tickets for the remote host in
                     79: .Ar realm
                     80: instead of the remote host's realm as determined by
1.6       aaron      81: .Xr krb_realmofhost 3 .
1.1       deraadt    82: .It Fl l
                     83: By default, the remote username is the same as the local username.
                     84: The
                     85: .Fl l
                     86: option allows the remote name to be specified.
                     87: Kerberos authentication is used, and authorization is determined
                     88: as in
1.6       aaron      89: .Xr rlogin 1 .
1.1       deraadt    90: .It Fl n
1.7       aaron      91: Redirect input from the special device
1.1       deraadt    92: .Pa /dev/null
                     93: (see the
                     94: .Sx BUGS
                     95: section of this manual page).
                     96: .It Fl x
1.7       aaron      97: Enable
1.1       deraadt    98: .Tn DES
                     99: encryption for all data exchange.
                    100: This may introduce a significant delay in response time.
                    101: .El
                    102: .Pp
                    103: If no
                    104: .Ar command
                    105: is specified, you will be logged in on the remote host using
1.6       aaron     106: .Xr rlogin 1 .
1.7       aaron     107: .Pp
                    108: If
                    109: .Nm
                    110: is not invoked with the standard program name
                    111: .Pq Dq rsh ,
                    112: it uses this name as its
                    113: .Ar hostname
                    114: argument.
1.1       deraadt   115: .Pp
1.4       aaron     116: Shell meta-characters which are not quoted are interpreted on local machine,
                    117: while quoted meta-characters are interpreted on the remote machine.
1.1       deraadt   118: For example, the command
                    119: .Pp
                    120: .Dl rsh otherhost cat remotefile >> localfile
                    121: .Pp
                    122: appends the remote file
                    123: .Ar remotefile
                    124: to the local file
                    125: .Ar localfile ,
                    126: while
                    127: .Pp
                    128: .Dl rsh otherhost cat remotefile \&">>\&" other_remotefile
                    129: .Pp
                    130: appends
                    131: .Ar remotefile
                    132: to
                    133: .Ar other_remotefile .
                    134: .\" .Pp
                    135: .\" Many sites specify a large number of host names as commands in the
                    136: .\" directory /usr/hosts.
                    137: .\" If this directory is included in your search path, you can use the
                    138: .\" shorthand ``host command'' for the longer form ``rsh host command''.
                    139: .Sh FILES
                    140: .Bl -tag -width /etc/hosts -compact
                    141: .It Pa /etc/hosts
                    142: .El
                    143: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    144: .Xr rlogin 1 ,
                    145: .Xr kerberos 3 ,
1.4       aaron     146: .Xr krb_realmofhost 3 ,
1.1       deraadt   147: .Xr krb_sendauth 3 ,
1.3       deraadt   148: .Xr rcmd 3
1.1       deraadt   149: .Sh HISTORY
                    150: The
1.6       aaron     151: .Nm
1.1       deraadt   152: command appeared in
                    153: .Bx 4.2 .
                    154: .Sh BUGS
                    155: If you are using
1.6       aaron     156: .Xr csh 1
1.1       deraadt   157: and put a
1.6       aaron     158: .Nm
1.1       deraadt   159: in the background without redirecting its input away from the terminal,
                    160: it will block even if no reads are posted by the remote command.
                    161: If no input is desired you should redirect the input of
1.6       aaron     162: .Nm
1.1       deraadt   163: to
                    164: .Pa /dev/null
                    165: using the
                    166: .Fl n
                    167: option.
                    168: .Pp
                    169: You cannot run an interactive command
                    170: (like
1.6       aaron     171: .Xr rogue 6
1.1       deraadt   172: or
1.6       aaron     173: .Xr vi 1 )
1.1       deraadt   174: using
1.6       aaron     175: .Nm rsh ;
1.1       deraadt   176: use
1.6       aaron     177: .Xr rlogin 1
1.1       deraadt   178: instead.
                    179: .Pp
                    180: Stop signals stop the local
1.6       aaron     181: .Nm
1.1       deraadt   182: process only; this is arguably wrong, but currently hard to fix for reasons
                    183: too complicated to explain here.