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6 rcmd, rresvport, iruserok, ruserok, rcmd_af, rresvport_af, iruserok_af,
7 ruserok_af - routines for returning a stream to a remote command
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10 #include <netdb.h> /* Or <unistd.h> on some systems */
11 int rcmd(char **ahost, unsigned short inport, const char *locuser,
13 const char *remuser, const char *cmd, int *fd2p);
14 int rresvport(int *port);
16 int iruserok(uint32_t raddr, int superuser,
18 const char *ruser, const char *luser);
19 int ruserok(const char *rhost, int superuser,
21 const char *ruser, const char *luser);
22 int rcmd_af(char **ahost, unsigned short inport, const char *locuser,
24 const char *remuser, const char *cmd, int *fd2p,
25 sa_family_t af);
26 int rresvport_af(int *port, sa_family_t af);
28 int iruserok_af(const void *raddr, int superuser,
30 const char *ruser, const char *luser, sa_family_t af);
31 int ruserok_af(const char *rhost, int superuser,
33 const char *ruser, const char *luser, sa_family_t af);
34 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
36 rcmd(), rcmd_af(), rresvport(), rresvport_af(), iruserok(),
38 iruserok_af(), ruserok(), ruserok_af():
39 Since glibc 2.19:
40 _DEFAULT_SOURCE
41 Glibc 2.19 and earlier:
42 _BSD_SOURCE
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45 The rcmd() function is used by the superuser to execute a command on a
46 remote machine using an authentication scheme based on privileged port
47 numbers. The rresvport() function returns a file descriptor to a
48 socket with an address in the privileged port space. The iruserok()
49 and ruserok() functions are used by servers to authenticate clients
50 requesting service with rcmd(). All four functions are used by the
51 rshd(8) server (among others).
52 rcmd()
54 The rcmd() function looks up the host *ahost using gethostbyname(3),
55 returning -1 if the host does not exist. Otherwise, *ahost is set to
56 the standard name of the host and a connection is established to a
57 server residing at the well-known Internet port inport.
58 If the connection succeeds, a socket in the Internet domain of type
60 SOCK_STREAM is returned to the caller, and given to the remote command
61 as stdin and stdout. If fd2p is nonzero, then an auxiliary channel to
62 a control process will be set up, and a file descriptor for it will be
63 placed in *fd2p. The control process will return diagnostic output
64 from the command (unit 2) on this channel, and will also accept bytes
65 on this channel as being UNIX signal numbers, to be forwarded to the
66 process group of the command. If fd2p is 0, then the stderr (unit 2 of
67 the remote command) will be made the same as the stdout and no provi‐
68 sion is made for sending arbitrary signals to the remote process,
69 although you may be able to get its attention by using out-of-band
70 data.
71 The protocol is described in detail in rshd(8).
73 rresvport()
75 The rresvport() function is used to obtain a socket with a privileged
76 port bound to it. This socket is suitable for use by rcmd() and sev‐
77 eral other functions. Privileged ports are those in the range 0 to
78 1023. Only a privileged process (on Linux: a process that has the
79 CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability in the user namespace governing its
80 network namespace). is allowed to bind to a privileged port. In the
81 glibc implementation, this function restricts its search to the ports
82 from 512 to 1023. The port argument is value-result: the value it sup‐
83 plies to the call is used as the starting point for a circular search
84 of the port range; on (successful) return, it contains the port number
85 that was bound to.
86 iruserok() and ruserok()
88 The iruserok() and ruserok() functions take a remote host's IP address
89 or name, respectively, two usernames and a flag indicating whether the
90 local user's name is that of the superuser. Then, if the user is not
91 the superuser, it checks the /etc/hosts.equiv file. If that lookup is
92 not done, or is unsuccessful, the .rhosts in the local user's home
93 directory is checked to see if the request for service is allowed.
94 If this file does not exist, is not a regular file, is owned by anyone
96 other than the user or the superuser, is writable by anyone other than
97 the owner, or is hardlinked anywhere, the check automatically fails.
98 Zero is returned if the machine name is listed in the hosts.equiv file,
99 or the host and remote username are found in the .rhosts file; other‐
100 wise iruserok() and ruserok() return -1. If the local domain (as
101 obtained from gethostname(2)) is the same as the remote domain, only
102 the machine name need be specified.
103 If the IP address of the remote host is known, iruserok() should be
105 used in preference to ruserok(), as it does not require trusting the
106 DNS server for the remote host's domain.
107 *_af() variants
109 All of the functions described above work with IPv4 (AF_INET) sockets.
110 The "_af" variants take an extra argument that allows the socket
111 address family to be specified. For these functions, the af argument
112 can be specified as AF_INET or AF_INET6. In addition, rcmd_af() sup‐
113 ports the use of AF_UNSPEC.
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116 The rcmd() function returns a valid socket descriptor on success. It
117 returns -1 on error and prints a diagnostic message on the standard
118 error.
119 The rresvport() function returns a valid, bound socket descriptor on
121 success. It returns -1 on error with the global value errno set
122 according to the reason for failure. The error code EAGAIN is over‐
123 loaded to mean "All network ports in use."
124 For information on the return from ruserok() and iruserok(), see above.
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128 The functions iruserok_af(), rcmd_af(), rresvport_af(), and
129 ruserok_af() functions are provide in glibc since version 2.2.
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132 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
133 attributes(7).
134 ┌────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
136 │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
137 ├────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
138 │rcmd(), rcmd_af() │ Thread safety │ MT-Unsafe │
139 ├────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
140 │rresvport(), rresvport_af() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
141 ├────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
142 │iruserok(), ruserok(), │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
143 │iruserok_af(), ruserok_af() │ │ │
144 └────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
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147 Not in POSIX.1. Present on the BSDs, Solaris, and many other systems.
148 These functions appeared in 4.2BSD. The "_af" variants are more recent
149 additions, and are not present on as wide a range of systems.
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152 iruserok() and iruserok_af() are declared in glibc headers only since
153 version 2.12.
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156 rlogin(1), rsh(1), intro(2), rexec(3), rexecd(8), rlogind(8), rshd(8)
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