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
