Help with automatic logins with telnet
I need help with automatically logging in to a computer with telnet. I want to use a file with my user name and password stored in it, and have telnet read theinput from the file using telnet login where login is the file with my name and password. I've tried this, but it doesn't work. It just gives me a Connection closed by foreign host before it even tries to read from the login file. I'm not sure what's wrong. Could someone please help me with this. Thanks in advance. BTW please send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of replying to the list since I'm no longer subscribed to the list. I hope some of this is clear.
RE: Help with automatic logins with telnet
This is generally a bad idea. What are you attempting to do? Something like rsh or ssh may be a better option. If you just want to telnet w/o typing your name, there is not a GOOD option. On 27-Nov-98 Brian Maneikis wrote: I need help with automatically logging in to a computer with telnet. I want to use a file with my user name and password stored in it, and have telnet read theinput from the file using telnet login where login is the file with my name and password. I've tried this, but it doesn't work. It just gives me a Connection closed by foreign host before it even tries to read from the login file. I'm not sure what's wrong. Could someone please help me with this. Thanks in advance. BTW please send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of replying to the list since I'm no longer subscribed to the list. I hope some of this is clear. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Help with automatic logins with telnet
With the below advice noted, it is possible to do this with expect. I've done this so my school wouldn't delete my account when I don't log into one of their systems for a few days. I then crontabbed the program. But, as Shaleh says, you need to understand the security problems associated with this, and look into other solutions first. On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: This is generally a bad idea. What are you attempting to do? Something like rsh or ssh may be a better option. If you just want to telnet w/o typing your name, there is not a GOOD option. On 27-Nov-98 Brian Maneikis wrote: I need help with automatically logging in to a computer with telnet. I want to use a file with my user name and password stored in it, and have telnet read theinput from the file using telnet login where login is the file with my name and password. I've tried this, but it doesn't work. It just gives me a Connection closed by foreign host before it even tries to read from the login file. I'm not sure what's wrong. Could someone please help me with this. Thanks in advance. BTW please send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of replying to the list since I'm no longer subscribed to the list. I hope some of this is clear. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |