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From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@rocket.Ngbert.org>
To: Darryl Bowler <darrylb@blinx.lizard.org>
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Subject: Re: Password and Telnet
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hmmm...
write a file that contains all the passwds;
pgp encryt that file;
in ur script, run pgp to decrpt that file in the beginning;
read the content of that file as the passwd;
remove the file at the end.

/ayn

On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Darryl Bowler wrote:
> This may sound like a dumb question to ask, but...
> At work I have lots of devices that I want to log into but only can via telnet.
> I want to do this by a script of sorts, but the problem I have is how do I 
> pass a password to telnet via a script.

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