On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 15:44 -0500, John P. Rouillard wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > jeff vier writes: > >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. > > Replace your serial consoles with something like a Cyclades that > allows use of public keys.
it's an off-site hosted box for a side-project of mine. This isn't enterprise-level stuff (and I can't influence changes directly). > I don't think check_by_ssh is going to work since the ssh->serial > connection will probably not permit execution of a script and the > return of the exit code without a lot of work. Also it has no real > interactive support and it should like you need that. that's a good point. I was envisioning it functioning like, as you said below, an expect wrapper or something similar. In the mean time, I'm forcing myself to be satisfied with just checking that I can connect to the SSH server at all. > >does anyone have a solution with existing tools? > An expect wrapper around ssh should do the trick and it can negotiate > the login prompt on the serial port as well. I don't want to actually log in, I just want to see that I'm prompted for the username with the correct hostname. So, yeah, I think we're on the same page.
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