AppleScript to telnet to a remote host via a bastion

blanders — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:52:32 +0000

AppleScript to SSH to my bastion host, then telnet to a remote host. Works best if you have RSA/DSA public-key authentication and an ssh-agent configured. Could probably use some better error handling.

set myBastion to "public.example.com"

tell application "iTerm"
  activate

  display dialog "Enter hostname:" default answer "none"
  set theResult to result
  set theHost to text returned of theResult

  set aTerm to (current terminal)

  if (count of terminal) = 0 then
    set aTerm to (make new terminal)
  end if

  tell aTerm
    set aSession to (make new session at end of sessions)

    tell aSession
      set name to theHost
      exec command "ssh -t " & myBastion & " telnet " & theHost
    end tell
  snd tell

end tell

Republished my ADExport Script

blanders — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:50:28 +0000

Realized that at some point my script for exporting all email addresses from Microsoft Exchange got moved out of the document root. It’s back, and you can find it here. I haven’t tested it in a while (since we moved from Sendmail/SpamAssassin to IronPort at work), but it worked well enough when we were using it.

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AppleScript to telnet to a remote host via a bastion

Republished my ADExport Script