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                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)netlogin.1  6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH NETLOGIN 1 "4/29/85"
                      8: .UC 4
                      9: .ds s 1
                     10: .ds o 1
                     11: .SH NAME
                     12: netlogin \- provide login name and password for a remote machine
                     13: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     14: .B netlogin
                     15: .B \-m
                     16: machine [
                     17: .B \-l
                     18: login
                     19: ]
                     20: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     21: The
                     22: .I netlogin
                     23: command sets the login name and password for the specified
                     24: .I machine
                     25: in a rather unusual way.
                     26: The user should type (to the C shell)
                     27: .IP
                     28: setenv\ MACH\fImachine\fR\ \(ganetlogin\ \-m\ \fImachine\fR\(ga
                     29: .LP
                     30: or (to the default Version 7 ``Bourne'' shell)
                     31: .IP
                     32: MACH\fImachine\fR=\(ganetlogin\ \-m\ \fImachine\fR\(ga; export MACH\fImachine\fR
                     33: .PP
                     34: to his login shell.  (Note the back-quotes).
                     35: For example,
                     36: .IP
                     37: setenv\ MACHA\ `netlogin\ \-m\ A`
                     38: .PP
                     39: will prompt the user for his login name and password on the A machine and
                     40: .IP
                     41: setenv\ MACHA\ `netlogin\ \-m\ A \-l\ myname`
                     42: .PP
                     43: will prompt the user for the password to account `A:myname'.
                     44: .PP
                     45: The 
                     46: .IR net (\*s)
                     47: command will read the environment looking for environment variables
                     48: beginning with ``MACH'' and followed by a valid machine name on the
                     49: local network.
                     50: If found it will use that information rather than prompt the user
                     51: every time he executes a network command.
                     52: This environment information is ignored if login names and passwords
                     53: are specified on the command line of network commands using the 
                     54: .B \-l
                     55: and 
                     56: .B \-p
                     57: options or in the
                     58: .I \&.netrc
                     59: file.
                     60: .PP
                     61: This procedure for specifying passwords is somewhat safer than
                     62: putting the remote passwords in the
                     63: .I \&.netrc
                     64: file.
                     65: The passwords in the environment are encrypted and the environment
                     66: information is useless after the user logs out.
                     67: Use the 
                     68: .IR printenv (\*o)
                     69: command to see the encrypted password.
                     70: .SH AUTHOR
                     71: Eric Schmidt
                     72: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     73: net(\*s), netrm(\*s), netq(\*s), netlog(\*s), netcp(\*s),
                     74: netlpr(\*s), netmail(\*s), printenv(\*o), csh(\*o)
                     75: .SH BUGS

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