To ask a familiar question: auto-login of console connections

  Hi there.  I know this question has been asked before in numerous  
forms, and there is some information in the mailing list archives et  
al regarding perl and expect scripts using telnet and/or ssh, etc etc.

  But, to pose my thoughts and questions; I have a conserver host  
connecting to a variety of serial consoles through a Cisco access  
server.  I could use ssh to get encrypted communications, but it's a  
private network locally, so I'm not worried about that.  That means I  
can just use conserver to open the [telnet] connection directly,  
which is nice.  When the TCP connection gets opened, the Cisco is  
configured to request a username and password log in.  I know that I  
could use initcmd with an expect script, or the like, to do this.   
But, I can't tell from the documentation what happens *after* the  
initcmd runs.  Is it possible to run the initcmd, then drop back to  
having conserver manage the connection directly?  I'm assuming not,  
because I would have to "share" the fd's with the initcmd to be able  
to reuse them when the command exited.

  Is there a way to run a command, or some sort of built-in expect- 
like logic, to process a log-in on a "type host" connection, without  
having to have another [two] processes running to continue to manage  
the connection?

  Thanks...

                     - Chris