Plugin to simulate a user login?

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Steve Gilbert wrote:

> Sorry if this has been asked before, but my searches didn't turn up
> anything.  Just hoping somebody can help me not have to reinvent the
> wheel...
>
> I need a plugin that will ssh and/or telnet to a Unix (Linux and
> Solaris) host and performn an actual login.  Ie, it needs to log in with
> an actual username and password and confirm that everything works okay.
> This would confirm that logins, NIS, automounter, etc. are all working.
>

Well, the short way would be to use ssh host keys, that means, keys
without a passphrase. So check_by_ssh can log into an existing account,
and perform some more checks there...

HTH
Olaf


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