[plug] difference between rlogin and telnet?

[Richard Sharpe]

At 01:55 PM 6/13/00 +0800, Jason Nicholls wrote:
>> Hang about, consults Stevens (RIP) and bzzzt, nope, rlogin does not use
>> RPC. It is even simpler than telnet (having written a decoder for Telnet
>> and some telnet client code in the past).
>
>Well, I was recalling stuff from my recent Computer Commuication course at
>uni, and I quote:
>
>	There are a number of utilities available on our UNIX machines which
>	use RPC. They are:
>
>		rlogin

Nope, not RPC

>		rcp

Nor this one.

>		rsh

Nor this one, nor ssh, scp, etc.

>		nfs	<- well I know this one is

This one does. It uses SUN RPC. Micosoft's Domain controller stuff uses DCE
RPC (formerly from Apollo via HP, I think) (which is implemented on top of
SMB ...).

>
>Can someone with "the knowledge" clarify this for me?
>
>
>Later,
>
>Jason Nicholls
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Regards
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