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General Information on Terminal Access

Terminal access to a computer signifies a text only connection to a remote computer. Essentially, once you are connected, its virtually like sitting in front of a the remote computer and typing commands. A remote access program uses several different protocols and methods to connect to a remote machine. These methods include telnet, slogin, and rlogin.

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