Sun Remote System Control (RSC) User's Guide

Logging In to Your RSC Account

After RSC software is installed and configured and an account has been set up for you, you can connect to RSC and log in to your account using a Solaris workstation, Windows PC, standard ASCII character terminal, or a computer running ASCII terminal emulation software.

Follow these steps to log in to your RSC account:

Connect to RSC using one of these five methods:
1. Use point-to-point protocol (PPP) to connect to your company Ethernet, and then use the telnet command to connect to RSC.
  
  Ask your network administrator if you do not know the server's RSC name (it is usually servername-rsc).
2. If you are already connected to your company Ethernet, use the telnet command to connect to RSC.
3. Use PPP to connect to the RSC modem. To use this option, PPP must be enabled.
4. If PPP is not enabled on the serial port, dial in to the RSC modem.
5. Connect your client machine directly to the RSC serial port.
  
  To use this option, you must disable PPP by using the RSC shell or rscadm utility to set the ppp_enabled configuration variable to false, or by using the GUI.
  
  When connection is established, the following screen appears:
```
RSC version 1.0
Please login:
Please enter password:
```

Enter your RSC login name.

Enter your RSC password.

Your password is not echoed on the screen. After you correctly enter your password, RSC displays this command prompt:
```
rsc>
```
You can enter RSC shell commands at the rsc> prompt.

Logins are recorded in the RSC event log. In addition, RSC sends an alert if it detects five login failures within five minutes. You can also set RSC to disconnect a session connected to the serial port after ten minutes of inactivity; see "serial_hw_handshake".