autoconnect to telnet server.

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

On Monday 09 July 2007 17:31:00 Guillaume wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to use the telnet client via with cron & script to
> execute special command on a telnet server.
> On telnet manual i saw the -l option used to specify the user. But i
> dont find any way to give the password (of course in clear text, i
> dont speak here about security).
> I try several commands like
> ] telnet -l $user host <passwdor
> ] echo password | telnet -l $user host
> ]cat passwordfile | telnet -l $user host
> None of this works. Does someone can help me ?
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Gui

What about using expect?

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