Telnet and running commands on remote systems

[Jason Orendorff]

> YMMV, but, as for me, I feel much safer in having no telnet
> (nor any non-anonymous FTP) taking place, and relying on SSH
> and friends for everything...

Good answer - to which I might add, if the task involves several
commands, write a script that does everything.  Use Python or
bash, or whatever you like.  Put the script on the server,
and then invoke it remotely from Python via ssh.

## Jason Orendorff    http://www.jorendorff.com/