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Basic

§ 11.A: The telnet Command

One way to log into another machine is with the telecommunications network command telnet. Don't get confused, telnet is also the name of a terminal "emulator program", that is, a program which lets your PC act as a terminal to another computer.

The syntax for the telnet command is telnet followed by the machine you wish to log onto:

If your userid on the machine is different from that on the present machine, you may wish to include the login option -l followed by your userid:

If you are logging in from a Departmental cluster, you may be able to use the abbreviation:

Try "telnetting" to your ucs account now. You should get a response like:

Go ahead, log onto ucs the same way you did a login to the Departmental cluster. Change your password if requested. Feel free to look around your ucs account and check out some familiar commands in an alien environment. Enter the logout command to log out of ucs and automatically terminate your telnet session:

Soon we will discuss how to use your ucs account for mail. But first we'll discuss another way to remotely log in to a Unix machine and how to use the file transfer protocol command ftp to transfer files.

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