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REMSH Service

Implementation Differences

The full remote shell service typically consists of two parts (the remsh

client which allows a user on this machine to access remote hosts and

the remshd server which allows remsh clients on other hosts to access

the local host). Only the remsh client functionality has been

implemented on the MPE/iX system.

The UNIX version of the remsh client has an optional -n parameter

that tells the client to not read from STDIN. Due to differences between

MPE I/O and UNIX I/O the -n parameter has been hard coded into the

MPE/iX client.

The HP-UX remsh client also allows rlogin and rexec functionality.

Since the MPE/iX implementation was designed to address the needs of

users attempting to access UNIX commands/scripts from stream jobs,

we chose not to implement any feature needing interactive input with

the remote system.