07-28-2013
You should use ssh, because a) it's encrypted while telnet is not, b) you can, when you have generated and exchanged keys (there is plenty of instructions for this here in the forum as well as on the www [check for "ssh passwordless" or "ssh without password"]) you can simply issue commands on remote machines.
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