George Kooper wrote:

> Is it possible to signon to telnet using a script, so I do not have to
> enter userid and password

You mean you wanna run telnet in a script, but telnet forces using /dev/tty?
This is what program <i>expect</i> good for.

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Maurizio Loreti wrote:

> George Kooper <tentimes5@hotmail.com > writes:
> 
>
> You don't want to do that.
>
> Consider using ssh with public key authentication, instead...
>
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> Maurizio Loreti                         [url]http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html[/
url]
> Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy              ROT13: ybergv@cq.vasa.vg[/co
lor]

I agree that it's usually if not always a bad idea, but yes, you can do it.
expect is a product that an do that.  Of course, you would have to
install it and be prepared to live with the trouble that passwords in
scripts can cause.  If it's your home system, go right ahead.  If it's
somebody else's system, I wouldn't do that.

Speaking only for myself,

Joe Durusau

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