I am writing a program, to telnet to a server and perfrom certain tasks (tasks -> unimportant). When I try to telnet to a server remotely, I can access the server with a certain login name/password, but when i enter another valid login name/password, it times out. Do you know why it worked for a screen name but yet it didn't work for another one. Is there something wrong with the code?? Here is some of the code. Thank you. 

  #!/usr/bin/perl 
  # file: telnet_a.pl 
  
     use Net::Telnet; 
     use Term::ReadKey; 
  
     #connects to the server of your choice 
     $telnet = Net::Telnet->new('osf1.gmu.edu'); 

     #asks for login name with password 
     print "Login Name : "; 
     $HOST = <STDIN> or die print "not a valid name"; 
          
     #reads in the password without showing the character  
     #being typed in 
     ReadMode("noecho",STDIN); 
     print "Password   : "; 
     $USER = <>; 
     print "\n"; 
     
     #restor to normal settings 
     ReadMode("original",STDIN); 
     
     #connects to server 
     $telnet->login($HOST,$USER) or die print "can't access server"; 

     $telnet->cmd('ls');

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In reply to login remotely through telnet by Anonymous Monk

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