I'm been searching on google but I can't find a telnet command example that incorporates the username and password all in one command. I know how to telnet in to another machine but it always stops and asks me for the password which i then type in.
I figured there must be a way to include the username and password in the telnet command so it logs me in in one go but I haven't found any example. Can this be done?

Why are you not using SSH instead?

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Hi there,

not with something as simple as telnet. That's because telnet is designed to be "dumb" and totally protocol ignorant - telnet just establishes a connection, but nothing else. A login with username and password, however, is protocol specific, and therefore beyond the scope of telnet.

I guess you want to log in to a remote shell like bash or something? Maybe ssh is an alternative, especially as telnet would transmit all data (including a password) unencrypted and thus unprotected, while ssh establishes an SSL connection. That's why the use of telnet is often discouraged.

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A telnet client used to connect to a non-telnet port is just transport but when used to the telnet server port (23) it does protocol stuff.

you need to use expect to be able to automatically login in a telnet session

thankyou for the response here, I ended up using ssh. Here's what worked:
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this worked and I was able to login to another server all in one command. I had to log in once with ssh manually just to (kind of) set it going and after that it worked ok.