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The difference between rlogin and telnet is that if you have an appropriately configured .rhosts file on the remote system, you do not have to specify a username and password to login using rlogin. With the telnet command you always have to specify both a username and a password to login.
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ps: while discussion differences between telnet and rlogin, its useful to remember that telnet client implements a virtual terminal for the server, whereas rlogin implements a virtual DB25 socket... (or did when it was created, its a little fancier now).
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What's the difference? The more professinal, ... If you find that rlogin doesn't work, but telnet does, then you may have a problem with RPC-based services on one or both systems. Check other RPC-based services to see if any of them work, and check between this and other hosts (change the combination of hosts).
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Section 1.2: How do SSH, Telnet and Rlogin differ? ... This list summarises some of the differences between SSH, Telnet and Rlogin. ... If you are behind a good firewall, it is more likely to be safe to use Telnet or Rlogin, but we still recommend you use SSH.
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One difference between telnet and rlogin is that if the communications package is configured for it and you create an appropriate .rhosts file (see section 13.1.3), you can log in to the remote system using rlogin without typing the password.
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# #Having read Steven's "Unix Network Programming", what is the major #difference between rlogin and telnet. Here are the differences I see: # # 1) rlogin is for unix-to-unix logins, telnet is for any tcp/ip # computer Not just Unix.
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rlogind—The rlogin (remote login) server. rlogin is an r service that allows users to conduct remote terminal sessions, much like telnet does. A major difference between rlogin and telnet is that rlogin allows users to set up passwordless access on trusted hosts with trusted users.
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