remote login

A login that allows a user terminal to connect to a host computer via a network or direct telecommunications link, and to interact with that host computer as if the user terminal were directly connected to that host computer. Synonym remote logon.

<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)