RCMD(3) RCMD(3) NAME rcmd, rresvport, ruserok - routines for returning a stream to a remote command SYNOPSIS rem = rcmd(ahost, inport, locuser, remuser, cmd, fd2p); char **ahost; int inport; char *locuser, *remuser, *cmd; int *fd2p; s = rresvport(port); int *port; ruserok(rhost, superuser, ruser, luser); char *rhost; int superuser; char *ruser, *luser; DESCRIPTION _R_c_m_d is a routine used by the super-user to execute a command on a remote machine using an authentication scheme based on reserved port numbers. _R_r_e_s_v_p_o_r_t is a routine which returns a descriptor to a socket with an address in the privileged port space. _R_u_s_e_r_o_k is a routine used by servers to authenticate clients requesting service with _r_c_m_d. All three functions are present in the same file and are used by the _r_s_h_d(8C) server (among others). _R_c_m_d looks up the host _*_a_h_o_s_t using _g_e_t_h_o_s_t_b_y_n_a_m_e(3N), returning -1 if the host does not exist. Otherwise _*_a_h_o_s_t is set to the standard name of the host and a connection is established to a server residing at the well-known Internet port _i_n_p_o_r_t. 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 _f_d_2_p is non-zero, then an auxiliary channel to a control process will be set up, and a descriptor for it will be placed in _*_f_d_2_p. 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. If _f_d_2_p is 0, then the stderr (unit 2 of the remote command) will be made the same as the stdout and no provi‐ sion 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. The protocol is described in detail in _r_s_h_d(8C). The _r_r_e_s_v_p_o_r_t routine is used to obtain a socket with a privileged address bound to it. This socket is suitable for use by _r_c_m_d and sev‐ eral other routines. Privileged Internet ports are those in the range 0 to 1023. Only the super-user is allowed to bind an address of this sort to a socket. _R_u_s_e_r_o_k takes a remote host’s name, as returned by a _g_e_t_h_o_s_t_b_y_a_d_d_r(3N) routine, two user names and a flag indicating whether the local user’s name is that of the super-user. It then checks the files _/_e_t_c_/_h_o_s_t_s_._e_q_u_i_v and, possibly, _._r_h_o_s_t_s in the current working direc‐ tory (normally the local user’s home directory) to see if the request for service is allowed. A 0 is returned if the machine name is listed in the ‘‘hosts.equiv’’ file, or the host and remote user name are found in the ‘‘.rhosts’’ file; otherwise _r_u_s_e_r_o_k returns -1. If the _s_u_p_e_r_u_s_e_r flag is 1, the checking of the ‘‘host.equiv’’ file is bypassed. If the local domain (as obtained from _g_e_t_h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e(2)) is the same as the remote domain, only the machine name need be specified. SEE ALSO rlogin(1C), rsh(1C), intro(2), rexec(3), rexecd(8C), rlogind(8C), rshd(8C) DIAGNOSTICS _R_c_m_d returns a valid socket descriptor on success. It returns -1 on error and prints a diagnostic message on the standard error. _R_r_e_s_v_p_o_r_t returns a valid, bound socket descriptor on success. It returns -1 on error with the global value _e_r_r_n_o set according to the reason for failure. The error code EAGAIN is overloaded to mean ‘‘All network ports in use.’’ 4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 14, 1986 RCMD(3)