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shruthi
shruthi

Reputation: 327

Execute a command on remote machine using telnet in a single line

I would like to execute a command on a remote machine using telnet as,

telnet x.x.x.x command or similar

I want to include this as part of a script in Python ( subprocess ) and hence need it in one line. Or, are there any other ways to do the same?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 15187

Answers (3)

Gustik
Gustik

Reputation: 323

#!/bin/sh
empty -f -i in -o out telnet foo.bar.com
empty -w -i out -o in "ogin:" "luser\n"
empty -w -i out -o in "assword:" "TopSecret\n"
empty -s -o in "who am i\n"
empty -s -o in "exit\n"

http://empty.sourceforge.net/

Upvotes: 1

E.Z.
E.Z.

Reputation: 6661

Maybe this solution will be useful, but as stated in there, it won't work in case you need user/password authentication.

In order to skip manual user/password authentication, setting up ssh keys is the way to go. There is a short explanation about this here: SSH to a server without password for Admin Ease

Upvotes: 0

Mattie B
Mattie B

Reputation: 21269

Rather than relying on subprocess, you could try Python's built-in telnetlib instead.

A complete example that does almost exactly what you want is available as an example in the documentation: http://docs.python.org/library/telnetlib.html#telnet-example

I would personally also see if SSH is available on the target system. Not only will you be using a secure connection, but you can also set up SSH keys and use SSH's built-in support for executing a single command (e.g. ssh [email protected] ls -l).

Upvotes: 1

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