The full remote shell service typically consists of two parts
(the remsh client which allows
a user on this machine to access remote hosts and the remshd
server which allows remsh clients
on other hosts to access the local host). Only the remsh
client functionality has been implemented on the MPE/iX system.
The UNIX version of the remsh
client has an optional -n parameter
that tells the client to not read from STDIN.
Due to differences between MPE I/O and UNIX I/O the -n
parameter has been hard coded into the MPE/iX client.
The HP-UX remsh client also
allows rlogin and rexec functionality. Since the MPE/iX implementation
was designed to address the needs of users attempting to access
UNIX commands/scripts from stream jobs, we chose not to implement
any feature needing interactive input with the remote system.