Hi,

I am trying to make a connection to a remote machine using the "login" command. I want to use this in a script but i am not able to make out how i would provide the password required for it.

i was just wondering is there is any option in login command thats lets me pass the password in the command line itself.

or something like

# echo "mypassword" | login -h myserver.com
or
# login -h myserver.com < mypasswordfile.txt

Can anyone help me in this.

Thanks,
Amol C

If you want o ftp Or Login
1.write the below line in a test.sh file
ftp -nv XXX.XXX.XXX.XX ( Ipaddress or hostname, ftp or telnet)

2.and create test1.txt file with the login information

user username password
command1
command2
close

3. execute this line
/fullpath/test.sh < /fullpath/test1.txt

I hope this works for you

Vijay

I guess you should use rexec instead; you can't login to a remote host using login. Read rexec's manual page to learn how to specify remote user name and password using .netrc file.

hey guys thanks for the prompt reply...

well i am not going for FTP instead wanted to login into remote machine using a script....i had used rlogin for such a thing but was wodnering if we can do it the other way without having to edit the /etc/hosts file and the like.

anyways thanks a lot pals....