Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

remote login
     
         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)