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The .Fn rresvport function returns a descriptor to a socket with an address in the privileged port space. The .Fn ruserok function is used by servers to authenticate clients requesting service with .Fn rcmd . All three functions are present in the same file and are used by the .Xr rshd 8 server (among others). .Pp The .Fn rcmd function looks up the host .Fa *ahost using .Xr gethostbyname 3 , returning \-1 if the host does not exist. Otherwise .Fa *ahost is set to the standard name of the host and a connection is established to a server residing at the well-known Internet port .Fa inport . .Pp If the connection succeeds, a socket in the Internet domain of type .Dv SOCK_STREAM is returned to the caller, and given to the remote command as .Em stdin and .Em stdout . If .Fa fd2p is non-zero, then an auxiliary channel to a control process will be set up, and a descriptor for it will be placed in .Fa *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 .Tn UNIX signal numbers, to be forwarded to the process group of the command. If .Fa fd2p is 0, then the .Em stderr (unit 2 of the remote command) will be made the same as the .Em 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. .Pp The protocol is described in detail in .Xr rshd 8 . .Pp The .Fn rresvport function is used to obtain a socket with a privileged address bound to it. This socket is suitable for use by .Fn rcmd and several other functions. 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. .Pp The .Fn iruserok and .Fn ruserok functions take a remote host's IP address or name, as returned by the .Xr gethostbyname 3 routines, two user names and a flag indicating whether the local user's name is that of the super-user. Then, if the user is .Em NOT the super-user, it checks the .Pa /etc/hosts.equiv file. If that lookup is not done, or is unsuccessful, the .Pa .rhosts in the local user's home directory is checked to see if the request for service is allowed. .Pp If this file does not exist, is not a regular file, is owned by anyone other than the user or the super-user, or is writeable by anyone other than the owner, the check automatically fails. Zero is returned if the machine name is listed in the .Dq Pa hosts.equiv file, or the host and remote user name are found in the .Dq Pa .rhosts file; otherwise .Fn iruserok and .Fn ruserok return \-1. If the local domain (as obtained from .Xr gethostname 2 ) is the same as the remote domain, only the machine name need be specified. .Pp The .Fn iruserok function is strongly preferred for security reasons. It requires trusting the local DNS at most, while the .Fn ruserok function requires trusting the entire DNS, which can be spoofed. .Sh DIAGNOSTICS The .Fn rcmd function returns a valid socket descriptor on success. It returns \-1 on error and prints a diagnostic message on the standard error. .Pp The .Fn rresvport function returns a valid, bound socket descriptor on success. It returns \-1 on error with the global value .Va errno set according to the reason for failure. The error code .Dv EAGAIN is overloaded to mean ``All network ports in use.'' .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr rlogin 1 , .Xr rsh 1 , .Xr intro 2 , .Xr rexec 3 , .Xr rexecd 8 , .Xr rlogind 8 , .Xr rshd 8 .Sh HISTORY These functions appeared in .Bx 4.2 .