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.TH RSH 1 "Dec 23, 2008"
.SH NAME
rsh, remsh, remote_shell \- remote shell
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBrsh\fR [\fB-n\fR] [\fB-a\fR] [\fB-K\fR] [\fB-PN\fR | \fB-PO\fR] [\fB-x\fR] [\fB-f\fR | \fB-F\fR] [\fB-l\fR \fIusername\fR]
     [\fB-k\fR \fIrealm\fR] \fIhostname\fR \fIcommand\fR
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBrsh\fR \fIhostname\fR [\fB-n\fR] [\fB-a\fR] [\fB-K\fR] [\fB-PN\fR | \fB-PO\fR] [\fB-x\fR] [\fB-f\fR | \fB-F\fR]
     [\fB-l\fR \fIusername\fR] [\fB-k\fR \fIrealm\fR] \fIcommand\fR
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBremsh\fR [\fB-n\fR] [\fB-a\fR] [\fB-K\fR] [\fB-PN\fR | \fB-PO\fR] [\fB-x\fR] [\fB-f\fR | \fB-F\fR] [\fB-l\fR \fIusername\fR]
     [\fB-k\fR \fIrealm\fR] \fIhostname\fR \fIcommand\fR
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBremsh\fR \fIhostname\fR [\fB-n\fR] [\fB-a\fR] [\fB-K\fR] [\fB-PN\fR | \fB-PO\fR] [\fB-x\fR] [\fB-f\fR | \fB-F\fR]
     [\fB-l\fR \fIusername\fR] [\fB-k\fR \fIrealm\fR] \fIcommand\fR
.fi

.LP
.nf
 \fIhostname\fR [\fB-n\fR] [\fB-a\fR] [\fB-PN\fR | \fB-PO\fR] [\fB-x\fR] [\fB-f\fR | \fB-F\fR]
     [\fB-l\fR \fIusername\fR] [\fB-k\fR \fIrealm\fR] \fIcommand\fR
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
The \fBrsh\fR utility connects to the specified \fIhostname\fR and executes the
specified \fIcommand\fR. \fBrsh\fR copies its standard input to the remote
command, the standard output of the remote command to its standard output, and
the standard error of the remote command to its standard error. Interrupt,
quit, and terminate signals are propagated to the remote command. \fBrsh\fR
normally terminates when the remote command does.
.sp
.LP
The user can opt for a secure session of \fBrsh\fR which uses Kerberos V5 for
authentication. Encryption of the network session traffic is also possible. The
\fBrsh\fR session can be kerberized using any of the following Kerberos
specific options: \fB-a\fR, \fB-PN\fR or \fB-PO\fR, \fB-x\fR, \fB-f\fR or
\fB-F\fR, and \fB-k\fR \fIrealm\fR. Some of these options (\fB-a\fR, \fB-x\fR,
\fB-PN\fR or \fB-PO\fR, and \fB-f\fR or \fB-F\fR) can also be specified in the
\fB[appdefaults]\fR section of \fBkrb5.conf\fR(4). The usage of these options
and the expected behavior is discussed in the OPTIONS section below. If
Kerberos authentication is used, authorization to the account is controlled by
rules in \fBkrb5_auth_rules\fR(5). If this authorization fails, fallback to
normal \fBrsh\fR using \fBrhosts\fR occurs only if the \fB-PO\fR option is used
explicitly on the command line or is specified in \fBkrb5.conf\fR(4). Also, the
\fB-PN\fR or \fB-PO\fR, \fB-x\fR, \fB-f\fR or \fB-F\fR, and \fB-k\fR
\fIrealm\fR options are just supersets of the \fB-a\fR option.
.sp
.LP
If you omit \fIcommand\fR, instead of executing a single command, \fBrsh\fR
logs you in on the remote host using \fBrlogin\fR(1).
.sp
.LP
\fBrsh\fR does not return the exit status code of \fIcommand\fR.
.sp
.LP
Shell metacharacters which are not quoted are interpreted on the local machine,
while quoted metacharacters are interpreted on the remote machine. See
EXAMPLES.
.sp
.LP
If there is no locale setting in the initialization file of the login shell
(\fB\&.cshrc\fR, . . .) for a particular user, \fBrsh\fR always executes the
command in the "C" locale instead of using the default locale of the remote
machine.
.sp
.LP
The command is sent unencrypted to the remote system. All subsequent network
session traffic is encrypted. See \fB-x\fR.
.SH OPTIONS
.sp
.LP
The following options are supported:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-a\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Explicitly enable Kerberos authentication and trusts the \fB\&.k5login\fR file
for access-control. If the authorization check by \fBin.rshd\fR(1M) on the
server-side succeeds and if the \fB\&.k5login\fR file permits access, the user
is allowed to carry out the command.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-f\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Forward a copy of the local credentials (Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket) to
the remote system. This is a non-forwardable ticket granting ticket. Forward a
ticket granting ticket if you need to authenticate yourself to other Kerberized
network services on the remote host. An example would be if your home directory
on the remote host is \fBNFS\fR mounted by way of Kerberos V5. If your local
credentials are not forwarded in this case, you cannot access your home
directory. This option is mutually exclusive with the \fB-F\fR option.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-F\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Forward a forwardable copy of the local credentials (Kerberos Ticket Granting
Ticket) to the remote system. The \fB-F\fR option provides a superset of the
functionality offered by the \fB-f\fR option. For example, with the \fB-f\fR
option, if, after you connected to the remote host, your remote command
attempted to invoke \fB/usr/bin/ftp\fR, \fB/usr/bin/telnet\fR,
\fB/usr/bin/rlogin\fR, or \fB/usr/bin/rsh\fR, with the \fB-f\fR or \fB-F\fR
options, the attempt would fail. Thus, you would be unable to push your single
network sign on trust beyond one system. This option is mutually exclusive with
the \fB-f\fR option.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-k\fR \fIrealm\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Causes \fBrsh\fR to obtain tickets for the remote host in \fIrealm\fR instead
of the remote host's realm as determined by \fBkrb5.conf\fR(4).
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-K\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
This option explicitly disables Kerberos authentication. It can be used to
override the \fBautologin\fR variable in \fBkrb5.conf\fR(4).
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB\fR\fB-l\fR \fIusername\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Uses \fIusername\fR as the remote username instead of your local username. In
the absence of this option, the remote username is the same as your local
username.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-n\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Redirect the input of \fBrsh\fR to \fB/dev/null\fR. You sometimes need this
option to avoid unfortunate interactions between \fBrsh\fR and the shell which
invokes it. For example, if you are running \fBrsh\fR and invoke a \fBrsh\fR in
the background without redirecting its input away from the terminal, it blocks
even if no reads are posted by the remote command. The \fB-n\fR option prevents
this.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-PO\fR\fR
.ad
.br
.na
\fB\fB-PN\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Explicitly request new (\fB-PN\fR) or old (\fB-PO\fR) version of the Kerberos
"\fBrcmd\fR" protocol. The new protocol avoids many security problems prevalant
in the old one and is regarded much more secure, but is not interoperable with
older (MIT/SEAM) servers. The new protocol is used by default, unless
explicitly specified using these options or through \fBkrb5.conf\fR(4). If
Kerberos authorization fails when using the old "\fBrcmd\fR" protocol, there is
fallback to regular, non-kerberized \fBrsh\fR. This is not the case when the
new, more secure "\fBrcmd\fR" protocol is used.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-x\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Cause the network session traffic to be encrypted. See \fBDESCRIPTION\fR.
.RE

.sp
.LP
The type of remote shell (\fBsh\fR, \fBrsh\fR, or other) is determined by the
user's entry in the file \fB/etc/passwd\fR on the remote system.
.SH OPERANDS
.sp
.LP
The following operand is supported:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fIcommand\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 11n
The command to be executed on the specified \fIhostname\fR.
.RE

.SH USAGE
.sp
.LP
See \fBlargefile\fR(5) for the description of the behavior of \fBrsh\fR and
\fBremsh\fR when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31
bytes).
.sp
.LP
The \fBrsh\fR and \fBremsh\fR commands are IPv6-enabled. See \fBip6\fR(7P).
\fBIPv6\fR is not currently supported with Kerberos V5 authentication.
.sp
.LP
Hostnames are given in the \fIhosts\fR database, which can be contained in the
\fB/etc/hosts\fR file, the Internet domain name database, or both. Each host
has one official name (the first name in the database entry) and optionally one
or more nicknames. Official hostnames or nicknames can be given as
\fIhostname\fR.
.sp
.LP
If the name of the file from which \fBrsh\fR is executed is anything other than
\fBrsh\fR, \fBrsh\fR takes this name as its \fIhostname\fR argument. This
allows you to create a symbolic link to \fBrsh\fR in the name of a host which,
when executed, invokes a remote shell on that host. By creating a directory and
populating it with symbolic links in the names of commonly used hosts, then
including the directory in your shell's search path, you can run \fBrsh\fR by
typing \fIhostname\fR to your shell.
.sp
.LP
If \fBrsh\fR is invoked with the basename \fBremsh\fR, \fBrsh\fR checks for the
existence of the file \fB/usr/bin/remsh\fR. If this file exists, \fBrsh\fR
behaves as if \fBremsh\fR is an alias for \fBrsh\fR. If \fB/usr/bin/remsh\fR
does not exist, \fBrsh\fR behaves as if \fBremsh\fR is a host name.
.sp
.LP
For the kerberized \fBrsh\fR session, each user can have a private
authorization list in a file \fB\&.k5login\fR in their home directory. Each
line in this file should contain a Kerberos principal name of the form
\fIprincipal\fR/\fIinstance\fR@\fIrealm\fR. If there is a \fB~/.k5login\fR
file, then access is granted to the account if and only if the originater user
is authenticated to one of the principals named in the \fB~/.k5login\fR file.
Otherwise, the originating user is granted access to the account if and only if
the authenticated principal name of the user can be mapped to the local account
name using the \fIauthenticated-principal-name\fR \(-> \fIlocal-user-name\fR
mapping rules. The \fB\&.k5login\fR file (for access control) comes into play
only when Kerberos authentication is being done.
.sp
.LP
For the non-secure \fBrsh\fR session, each remote machine can have a file named
\fB/etc/hosts.equiv\fR containing a list of trusted hostnames with which it
shares usernames. Users with the same username on both the local and remote
machine can run \fBrsh\fR from the machines listed in the remote machine's
\fB/etc/hosts.equiv\fR file. Individual users can set up a similar private
equivalence list with the file .rhosts in their home directories. Each line in
this file contains two names: a hostname and a username separated by a space.
The entry permits the user named username who is logged into hostname to use
rsh to access the remote machine as the remote user. If the name of the local
host is not found in the \fB/etc/hosts.equiv\fR file on the remote machine, and
the local username and hostname are not found in the remote user's
\fB\&.rhosts\fR file, then the access is denied. The hostnames listed in the
\fB/etc/hosts.equiv\fR and \fB\&.rhosts\fR files must be the official hostnames
listed in the \fBhosts\fR database; nicknames can not be used in either of
these files.
.sp
.LP
You cannot log in using \fBrsh\fR as a trusted user from a trusted hostname if
the trusted user account is locked.
.sp
.LP
\fBrsh\fR does not prompt for a password if access is denied on the remote
machine unless the \fIcommand\fR argument is omitted.
.SH EXAMPLES
.LP
\fBExample 1 \fRUsing rsh to Append Files
.sp
.LP
The following command appends the remote file \fBlizard.file\fR from the
machine called \fBlizard\fR to the file called \fBexample.file\fR on the
machine called \fBexample\fR:

.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% \fBrsh lizard cat lizard.file >> example.file\fR
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.sp
.LP
The following command appends the file \fBlizard.file\fR on the machine called
\fBlizard\fR to the file \fBlizard.file2\fR which also resides on the machine
called \fBlizard\fR:

.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% \fBrsh lizard cat lizard.file ">>" lizard.file2\fR
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.SH EXIT STATUS
.sp
.LP
The following exit values are returned:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB0\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
Successful completion.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB1\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 5n
An error occurred.
.RE

.SH FILES
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB/etc/hosts\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 23n
Internet host table
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB/etc/hosts.equiv\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 23n
Trusted remote hosts and users
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB/etc/passwd\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 23n
System password file
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB$HOME/.k5login\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 23n
File containing Kerberos principals that are allowed access
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB/etc/krb5/krb5.conf\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 23n
Kerberos configuration file
.RE

.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
box;
c | c
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
CSI	Enabled
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBon\fR(1), \fBrlogin\fR(1), \fBssh\fR(1), \fBtelnet\fR(1), \fBvi\fR(1),
\fBin.rshd\fR(1M), \fBhosts\fR(4), \fBhosts.equiv\fR(4), \fBkrb5.conf\fR(4),
\fBattributes\fR(5), \fBkrb5_auth_rules\fR(5), \fBlargefile\fR(5),
\fBip6\fR(7P)
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
When a system is listed in \fBhosts.equiv\fR, its security must be as good as
local security. One insecure system listed in \fBhosts.equiv\fR can compromise
the security of the entire system.
.sp
.LP
You cannot run an interactive command (such as \fBvi\fR(1)). Use \fBrlogin\fR
if you wish to do this.
.sp
.LP
Stop signals stop the local \fBrsh\fR process only. This is arguably wrong, but
currently hard to fix for reasons too complicated to explain here.
.sp
.LP
The current local environment is not passed to the remote shell.
.sp
.LP
Sometimes the \fB-n\fR option is needed for reasons that are less than obvious.
For example, the command:
.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% \fBrsh somehost dd if=/dev/nrmt0 bs=20b | tar xvpBf \(mi\fR
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.sp
.LP
puts your shell into a strange state. Evidently, the \fBtar\fR process
terminates before the \fBrsh\fR process. The \fBrsh\fR command then tries to
write into the ``broken pipe'' and, instead of terminating neatly, proceeds to
compete with your shell for its standard input. Invoking \fBrsh\fR with the
\fB-n\fR option avoids such incidents.
.sp
.LP
This bug occurs only when \fBrsh\fR is at the beginning of a pipeline and is
not reading standard input. Do not use the \fB-n\fR option if \fBrsh\fR
actually needs to read standard input. For example:
.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% \fBtar cf \(mi . | rsh sundial dd of=/dev/rmt0 obs=20b\fR
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.sp
.LP
does not produce the bug. If you were to use the \fB-n\fR option in a case like
this, \fBrsh\fR would incorrectly read from \fB/dev/null\fR instead of from the
pipe.
.sp
.LP
For most purposes, \fBssh\fR(1) is preferred over \fBrsh\fR.