Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs Subject: Re: orchid rlogin restriction Keywords: ? Message-ID: <16488@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 18 Sep 89 22:31:27 GMT References: <16478@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) Distribution: uw Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 11 In article <16478@watdragon.waterloo.edu> dwtill@watyew.waterloo.edu (Dave Till) writes: >I'm curious: why is there a restriction on how orchid is accessed >by means of the "rlogin" command? I tried to log on to it today, and >got this: > > Remote access restricted to regular terminal ports. > >Can anybody clear up why such a limitation is necessary? What does this message mean? How can you have remote access on a regular terminal port? (I'm assuming it comes from one of our facist commands.)