Is there some hacked telnet with automatic login ? I am thinking of something with a file of passwords maintained on the client side. There are many cases when rsh won't work for me. Perl's Net::Telnet is not appropriate, I think. John -- John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>, lapeyre@debian.org Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre