Fw: Telnet Script?

[Alistair Grant]

Daniel wrote:
> Start the script in Cygwin on my machine. Change the password for my user,
> then subsequently telnet into another machine, and then change the
password
> for the account that I use on that machine. I have ideas of how to manage
> the passwords for whatever machine is current, but I am wondering if there
> is a way to control things based on what a user might see, but through an
> automated script. Does anyone have an example of how this could be done?
Or
> does someone have a suggestion of where to find information on this?


I haven't used it, however take a look at the "expect" package.  It's
purpose is to script the input to other interactive programs.

Hope this helps,

Alistair.


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