rexec — return stream to a remote command
int
rexec( |
char ** | ahost, |
| int | inport, | |
| char * | user, | |
| char * | passwd, | |
| char * | cmd, | |
| int * | fd2p); |
This interface is obsoleted by rcmd(3).
The rexec() function looks
up the host *ahost
using gethostbyname(3), returning
−1 if the host does not exist. Otherwise *ahost is set to the standard
name of the host. If a username and password are both
specified, then these are used to authenticate to the foreign
host; otherwise the environment and then the user's
.netrc file in his
home directory are searched for appropriate information. If
all this fails, the user is prompted for the information.
The port inport
specifies which well-known DARPA Internet port to use for the
connection; the call getservbyname("exec", "tcp") (see
getservent(3)) will return
a pointer to a structure that contains the necessary port.
The protocol for connection is described in detail in
rexecd(8).
If the connection succeeds, a socket in the Internet
domain of type SOCK_STREAM is
returned to the caller, and given to the remote command as
stdin and stdout. If fd2p is nonzero, then an
auxiliary channel to a control process will be setup, and a
descriptor for it will be placed in *fd2p. The control process will
return diagnostic output from the command (unit 2) on this
channel, and will also accept bytes on this channel as being
Unix signal numbers, to be forwarded to the process group of
the command. The diagnostic information returned does not
include remote authorization failure, as the secondary
connection is set up after authorization has been verified.
If fd2p is 0, then
the stderr (unit 2 of the remote
command) will be made the same as the stdout and no provision is made for sending
arbitrary signals to the remote process, although you may be
able to get its attention by using out-of-band data.
Not in POSIX.1-2001. Present on the BSDs, Solaris, and
many other systems. The rexec()
function appeared in 4.2BSD.
The rexec() function sends
the unencrypted password across the network.
The underlying service is considered a big security hole and therefore not enabled on many sites, see rexecd(8) for explanations.
This page is part of release 2.79 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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