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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to test for the ssh exit status in script? Post 302632493 by neutronscott on Monday 30th of April 2012 08:35:25 AM
Old 04-30-2012
Do you mean your script tries to start ssh, and it takes an incredible amount of time for that attempt to timeout?

It's not available as an ssh open, but an ssh_config option see man 5 ssh_config. You can still change on command-line with -o.

Code:
ssh -o ConnectTimeout=3 user@host ...

edit: more on exit status.

Also from ssh manual: "ssh exits with the exit status of the remote command or with 255 if an error occurred. "

So one could use [ $? -eq 255 ] to test for that in sh. maybe (( $? == 255 )) in bash. I just tested

Code:
$ ssh -o ConnectTimeout=3 mute@<blackhole> 2>/dev/null; (($? == 255)) && echo 'something broke.' >&2
something broke.

Last edited by neutronscott; 04-30-2012 at 09:44 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT POSIX

ssh-keysign

ssh-keysign(1M) 														   ssh-keysign(1M)

NAME

       ssh-keysign - ssh helper program for host-based authentication

SYNOPSIS

       ssh-keysign

       ssh-keysign  is	used  by ssh(1) to access the local host keys and generate the digital signature required during host-based authentication
       with SSH protocol version 2. This signature is of data that includes, among other items, the name of the client host and the  name  of  the
       client user.

       ssh-keysign  is	disabled  by  default and can be enabled only in the global client configuration file /etc/ssh/ssh_config by setting Host-
       basedAuthentication to yes.

       ssh-keysign is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from ssh. See ssh(1) and sshd(1M) for more information about host-based  authen-
       tication.

       /etc/ssh/ssh_config

	   Controls whether ssh-keysign is enabled.

       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
       /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key

	   These  files  contain the private parts of the host keys used to generate the digital signature. They should be owned by root, readable
	   only by root, and not accessible to others. Because they are readable only by root, ssh-keysign must  be  set-uid  root  if	host-based
	   authentication is used.

       ssh-keysign will not sign host-based authentication data under the following conditions:

	 o  If the HostbasedAuthentication client configuration parameter is not set to yes in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. This setting cannot be overri-
	    den in users' ~/.ssh/ssh_config files.

	 o  If the client hostname and username in /etc/ssh/ssh_config do not match the canonical hostname of  the  client  where  ssh-keysign	is
	    invoked and the name of the user invoking ssh-keysign.

       In  spite of ssh-keysign's restrictions on the contents of the host-based authentication data, there remains the ability of users to use it
       as an avenue for obtaining the client's private host keys. For this reason host-based authentication is turned off by default.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsshu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       ssh(1), sshd(1M), ssh_config(4), attributes(5)

AUTHORS

       Markus Friedl, markus@openbsd.org

HISTORY

       ssh-keysign first appeared in Ox 3.2.

								    9 Jun 2004							   ssh-keysign(1M)
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