[Gllug] Shell woes

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Mon Nov 12 14:12:38 UTC 2001


On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:55:40AM -0000, will wrote:
> Thanks for that, it worked.  One thing though, why does ssh work and telnet
> not in this way?  Any ideas?

Telnet expects an interactive session, but ssh can be used to run
arbitary commands on a remote machine without interaction. The rest of
the explanation is left as an exercise for the reader ;)

Cheers,

Simon

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