[Tutor] Telnet login

[Dave Angel]

On 11/08/2012 10:48 PM, T. Girowall wrote:

The quoting levels in this message are probably messed up, but I fixed
the order, and tried to fix the levels.

>> On 11/08/2012 09:33 PM, T. Girowall wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> ip: 192.168.xx.xx
>>> port: 2332
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated,
>>> Tim
>>> import getpass import sys import telnetlib HOST = "localhost" user =
raw_input("Enter your remote account: ") password = getpass.getpass() tn
= telnetlib.Telnet(HOST) tn.read_until("login: ") tn.write(user + "\n")
if password: tn.read_until("Password: ") tn.write(password + "\n")
tn.write("ls\n") tn.write("exit\n") print tn.read_all()
>>>
>>>
>  Dave Angel <d at davea.name> wrote:

>>
>> This is a text mailing list;  your html mail thoroughly mangles your
>> code for the majority of readers.
>>
>> Is there a reason why you used 192.168.xx.xx with putty, but used
>> localhost with your python code?
>>
> David, 
> 
> I'm new to this stuff so I apologize if dum mistakes are made. 
> 
> The device I'm connecting to has the 192.168 IP address and that's I should'v used in the code example. I did try changing the HOST = "192.168.xx.xx" but still got the same error message. I noticed that the default Port in Putty for Telnet is 23 but my device's port is 2332. Could this be the problem? If so, how I can change the port number? 
> 
> Here is the code in Text:
> 
> import getpass
> import sys
> import telnetlib
> 
> def main():
>     pass
> 
> HOST = "192.168.xx.xx"
> user = raw_input("Enter your remote account: ")
> password = getpass.getpass()
> 
> tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST)
> 
> tn.read_until("login: ")
> tn.write(user + "\n")
> if password:
>     tn.read_until("Password: ")
>     tn.write(password + "\n")
> 
> tn.write("ls\n")
> tn.write("exit\n")
> 
> print tn.read_all()
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     main()
> 
> 

Where's the error message, including the traceback?   Somebody (not me)
who is familiar with telnetlib can presumably help, given enough
information.


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DaveA