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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Assistance with testing ssh connections and what the return codes mean Post 303040366 by Chubler_XL on Sunday 27th of October 2019 11:45:45 PM
Old 10-28-2019
From man ssh:

Code:
EXIT STATUS
     ssh exits with the exit status of the remote command or with 255 if an
     error occurred.

so:
Code:
$ ssh non-existant-user@mymachine
non-existant-user@mymachine: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
$ echo $?
255

$ ssh mymachine exit 3
$ echo $?
3

Don't know why you get exit status of 1 when the password has expired - perhaps this is what login returns on target OS when password expired.
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

ssh-keysign

SSH-KEYSIGN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    SSH-KEYSIGN(8)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

     ssh-keysign

DESCRIPTION

     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.

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

     ssh-keysign is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from ssh(1).  See ssh(1) and sshd(8) for more information about host-based authen-
     tication.

FILES

     /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, read-
	     able only by root, and not accessible to others.  Since they are readable only by root, ssh-keysign must be set-uid root if host-
	     based authentication is used.

SEE ALSO

     ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1), ssh_config(5), sshd(8)

HISTORY

     ssh-keysign first appeared in OpenBSD 3.2.

AUTHORS

     Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>

BSD
								   May 31, 2007 							       BSD
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