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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: setting REMOTEHOST on rlogins
Message-ID: <110329@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 06:18:19 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.174725@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Jun12.174725@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov>
karl@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov (karl anderson) writes:
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| I'm just getting acquainted with SGI machines after using Suns alot.
| I see that when I rlogin to one of our Irises, an environment variable
| named "REMOTEHOST" is set to the name of the machine I'm logging in
| from.  Is this something unique to IRIX?
+---------------

Sorry, yes, as far as I know.

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| I'd love to be able to do that on my Suns - can anyone tell me how?
+---------------

It's done in "rlogind", if you feel energetic enough to go get Berkeley
"rlogind" source from UUNET (or your favorite archive), (re)invent the
changes [hint: use getpeername()], and make it run on your Suns.


-Rob

p.s. We also define the "REMOTEUSER" variable, as well.

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