From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1985 10:18:34 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: manual page distributed with 4.1BSD
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manual page distributed with 4.1BSD

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+.\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
+.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
+.\"
+.\"	@(#)netlogin.1	4.1 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"
+.TH NETLOGIN 1 2/6/80
+.UC 4
+.ds s 1
+.ds o 1
+.SH NAME
+netlogin \- provide login name and password for a remote machine
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B netlogin
+.B \-m
+machine [
+.B \-l
+login
+]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.I netlogin
+command sets the login name and password for the specified
+.I machine
+in a rather unusual way.
+The user should type (to the C shell)
+.IP
+setenv\ MACH\fImachine\fR\ \(ganetlogin\ \-m\ \fImachine\fR\(ga
+.LP
+or (to the default Version 7 ``Bourne'' shell)
+.IP
+MACH\fImachine\fR=\(ganetlogin\ \-m\ \fImachine\fR\(ga; export MACH\fImachine\fR
+.PP
+to his login shell.  (Note the back-quotes).
+For example,
+.IP
+setenv\ MACHA\ `netlogin\ \-m\ A`
+.PP
+will prompt the user for his login name and password on the A machine and
+.IP
+setenv\ MACHA\ `netlogin\ \-m\ A \-l\ myname`
+.PP
+will prompt the user for the password to account `A:myname'.
+.PP
+The 
+.IR net (\*s)
+command will read the environment looking for environment variables
+beginning with ``MACH'' and followed by a valid machine name on the
+local network.
+If found it will use that information rather than prompt the user
+every time he executes a network command.
+This environment information is ignored if login names and passwords
+are specified on the command line of network commands using the 
+.B \-l
+and 
+.B \-p
+options or in the
+.I \&.netrc
+file.
+.PP
+This procedure for specifying passwords is somewhat safer than
+putting the remote passwords in the
+.I \&.netrc
+file.
+The passwords in the environment are encrypted and the environment
+information is useless after the user logs out.
+Use the 
+.IR printenv (\*o)
+command to see the encrypted password.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Eric Schmidt
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+net(\*s), netrm(\*s), netq(\*s), netlog(\*s), netcp(\*s),
+netlpr(\*s), netmail(\*s), printenv(\*o), csh(\*o)
+.SH BUGS