For ftp you have a quick and dirty trick :
$ ftp -n yourhost <<-here
> quote USER youruser
> quote PASS yourpassword
> ls
> quit
> here
(you can do a put, get, whatever you want instead of “ls”)
For telnet similar idea:
$ (echo -e “open yourhostr”; sleep 2;echo -e “youruserr”; sleep 1; echo -e “yourpassword”; sleep 1; echo -e “unamer”; sleep 1; echo -e “exit”) | telnet
That sound pretty good but … it does not work on solaris (ok on Linux), and no way for ssh 
So if this shoddy doesn’t meet your expectations…
Expect is what you are looking for. Available for GNU-linux, solaris… MSwindows… at http://expect.nist.gov/
For debian do it cool:
apt-get install expect
I do it with 2 scripts. I’m sure that you can do better, but that’s work 
– script to call the expect and to make things good looking:
host=$1
psswd=$2
cmd=$3
os=$( ./expectaTion.tcl $host $psswd $cmd| awk “/$cmd/ “‘{getline; print}’|tr -d ‘
