remote login

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remote login - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  remote login
  
     <networking> A client-server program and protocol that
     provides an interactivel command line interface to a remote
     computer, using a protocol over a computer network,
     simulating a locally attached terminal.
  
     rlogin is the BSD Unix program and protocol for this,
     telnet is an earlier, more widely implemented protocol.
  
     (1999-03-26)