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The '''Berkeley r-commands''' are a [[Software suite|suite]] of [[computer program]]s designed to enable computer users to access various [[System resource|computer resources]] available on a [[Computer network|network]]. The r-commands were developed in 1982 by the [[Computer Systems Research Group]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], based on an early implementation of [[TCP/IP]] (the [[protocol stack]] of the [[Internet]]).<ref name="McKusick">{{cite book |title=[[Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution]] |last=McKusick |first=Marshall Kirk |authorlink=Marshall Kirk McKusick |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-56592-582-3 |chapter=Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable |chapter-url=http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html |publisher=O'Reilly & Associates |at=Section: "4.2BSD" |access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref>

The CSRG incorporated the r-commands into their [[Unix]] [[operating system]], the [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] (BSD). The r-commands premiered in BSD v4.1.<ref name="McKusick"/> Among the programs in the suite are: {{code|rcp}} (remote [[File copying|copy]]), {{code|rexec}} (remote [[Execution (computing)|execution]]), {{code|rlogin}} (remote [[login]]), {{code|rsh}} (remote [[Shell (computing)|shell]]), and {{code|rwho}} (remote [[who (Unix)|who]]).

==rlogin==