I need to check if I can log into a specific account on a system via SSH, but due to the nature of the system (tunneled to a serial console), I am unable to set up a key pair.
check_ssh only verifies that the system is answering to SSH requests (which doesn't help me, the serial console host almost certainly responds). check_by_ssh is *close*, but provides no method of passing a password via the command line (which, yes, is a ghetto method of doing things, but you would still have to know the login to the system, and it *is different*), and it requires a remote command to execute. So, before I delve into hacking this functionality into check_by_ssh, does anyone have a solution with existing tools?
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