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NAME

       klogind - remote login server

SYNOPSIS

       klogind  [ -rcpPef ] [[ -w[ip|maxhostlen[,[no]striplocal ]] ] [ -D port
       ]

DESCRIPTION

       Klogind is the server for the rlogin(1) program.  The server  is  based
       on rlogind(8) but uses Kerberos authentication.

       The klogind server is invoked by inetd(8) when it receives a connection
       on the port indicated in /etc/inetd.conf.   A  typical  /etc/inetd.conf
       configuration line for klogind might be:

       klogin stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/klogind klogind -e5c

       When   a  service  request  is  received,  the  following  protocol  is
       initiated:

       1)     Check authentication.

       2)     Check authorization via the access-control  files  .k5login  and
              .klogin in the user’s home directory.

       3)     Prompt  for  password  if  any checks fail and the -p option was
              supplied.

       If  the  authentication  succeeds,  login  the  user  by  calling   the
       accompanying login.krb5.

       klogind  allows  Kerberos  V5  authentication  with the .k5login access
       control file to be trusted.  If this  authorization  check  is  passed,
       then  the user is allowed to log in.  If the user has no .k5login file,
       the login will be authorized if the results of  krb5_aname_to_localname
       conversion   matches  the  account  name.   Unless  special  rules  are
       configured, this will be true if and only if the Kerberos principal  of
       the  connecting  user  is  in the default local realm and the principal
       portion matches the account name.

       The configuration of klogind is done by command line  arguments  passed
       by inetd.  The options are:

       -P     Prompt  the  user  for  a password.  If the -P option is passed,
              then the password is verified in addition to all other checks.

       -e     Create an encrypted session.

       -c     Require Kerberos V5 clients to present a cryptographic  checksum
              of initial connection information like the name of the user that
              the client is trying to access  in  the  initial  authenticator.
              This  checksum  provides  additionl  security  by  preventing an
              attacker from changing the initial connection  information.   If
              this  option is specified, older Kerberos V5 clients that do not
              send a checksum  in  the  authenticator  will  not  be  able  to
              authenticate  to this server.  This option is mutually exclusive
              with the -i option.

                   If  neither  the  -c  or  -i  options  are   specified,then
              checksums  are validated if presented.  Since it is difficult to
              remove a checksum  from  an  authenticator  without  making  the
              authenticator   invalid,   this   default   mode  is  almost  as
              significant of a security improvement as -c if new  clients  are
              used.    It   has   the   additional   advantage   of  backwards
              compatability with some clients.  Unfortunately, clients  before
              Kerberos V5, Beta5, generate invalid checksums; if these clients
              are used, the -i option must be used.

       -i     Ignore authenticator checksums if provided.  This option  ignore
              authenticator checksusm presented by current Kerberos clients to
              protect initial connection information; it is  the  opposite  of
              -c.   This  option  is  provided  because  some older clients --
              particularly clients predating the release of Kerberos V5  Beta5
              (May  1995)  --  present  bogus  checksums that prevent Kerberos
              authentication from succeeding in the default mode.

       The parent of the login process manipulates  the  master  side  of  the
       pseduo terminal, operating as an intermediary between the login process
       and the client instance of the rlogin(1) program.  In normal operation,
       the  packet  protocol  described  in pty(4) is invoked to provide ^S/^Q
       type facilities and propagate interrupt signals to the remote programs.
       The  login  process  propagates  the  client  terminal’s  baud rate and
       terminal type, as found in  the  environment  variable,  ‘‘TERM’’;  see
       environ(7).   The  screen  or  window size of the terminal is requested
       from the client, and window size changes from the client are propagated
       to the pseudo terminal.

       Klogind  supports  the  following  options  to  control the form of the
       hostname passed to login(1):

       -w [ip|maxhostlen[,[no]striplocal]]
              Controls the form of the remote  hostname  passed  to  login(1).
              Specifying  ip  results  in  the numeric IP address always being
              passed to login(1).  Specifying a number, maxhostlen,  sets  the
              maximum length of the hostname passed to login(1) before it will
              be passed as a numeric IP address.  If maxhostlen is 0, then the
              system  default,  as determined by the utmp or utmpx structures,
              is used.  The nostriplocal and striplocal options, which must be
              preceded  by  a  comma,  control  whether  or not the local host
              domain is stripped from the remote hostname.   By  default,  the
              equivalent of striplocal is in effect.

       Klogind supports five options which are used for testing purposes:

       -S keytab Set the keytab file to use.

       -M realm  Set the Kerberos realm to use.

       -L login  Set the login program to use.  This option only has an effect
                 if  DO_NOT_USE_K_LOGIN  was  not  defined  when  klogind  was
                 compiled.

       -D port   Run  in  standalone mode, listening on port.  The daemon will
                 exit after one connection and will not background itself.

       -f        Allows for standalone  daemon  operation.   A  new  child  is
                 started  for  each  incoming  connection  and waits for it to
                 finish  before   accepting   the   next   connection.    This
                 automagically figures out which port to bind to if no port is
                 specified.

DIAGNOSTICS

       All diagnostic messages are returned on the connection associated  with
       the  stderr,  after which any network connections are closed.  An error
       is indicated by a leading byte with a value of 1.

       ‘‘Try again.’’
       A fork by the server failed.

       ‘‘/bin/sh: ...’’
       The user’s login shell could not be started.

SEE ALSO

       rlogind(8), rlogin(1)

BUGS

       A more extensible protocol should be used.