So I'm trying this really simple example given by the python docs:
import getpass
import sys
import telnetlib
HOST = "<HOST_IP>"
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()
My issue is that it hangs at the end of the read_all()... It doesn't print anything out. I've never used this module before so I'm trying to get this really basic example to work before continuing. BTW, I'm using python 2.4 Thank you.
Okay, I found a solution. Before I entered ls and exit, I needed to first specify the terminal type. Adding
tn.write("vt100\n")
before the "ls" fixed the problem for me.
If you're using Windows, be sure to add carriage return (\r
) before the new line character:
tn.write(user.encode('ascii') + "\r\n".encode('ascii'))
I know this is late to post but may help others. I also struggled to get this right but here is my piece of code. My telnet would follow certain flow like it would ask for loginID
and then Password
and then you have to wait for a particular string to be displayed here,which for my case was "DB>"
then you can proceed with the command and all. My output would be saved in "out"
varible
import os,re,telnetlib
host = "10.xxx.xxx.xxx"
port = 23
telnet = telnetlib.Telnet()
telnet.open(host, port)
telnet.write('loginID\r\n')
telnet.write('Password\r\n')
out = telnet.read_until("DB>", 5)
telnet.write('show cable modem reg\r\n') #Mycommand
out = telnet.read_until("DB>", 5)
telnet.write('quit\r\n')
telnet.close()
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