Freddie wrote: > >> I'm trying to make a simple script that will do with telnet what > >> one can > >> do with ssh when you do "ssh hostname command". iow: > >> telnet somehost command > >> > >> then it should, using expect (presumably), telnet into somehost, > >> prompt > >> me interactively for the username/password, and after successfully > >> logging in run the command specified on somehost. > > > > The Wikipedia page for Expect uses this task as its first example: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect > > Thanks, I had already seen that. The problem with the example is it > expects the username and password as variables that I'd have to give > on the command line which I'd rather not do. If you're asking about the prompting, my first attempt would be: puts -nonewline stderr "Username: " flush stderr set username [gets stdin] puts -nonewline stderr "Password: " flush stderr exec stty -echo set password [gets stdin] exec stty echo puts stderr "" This is just normal Tcl, nothing specific to Expect. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
