I use dropbear client, connecting to an openssh server. dbclient will
provide connection services in a remote unattended client, and therefore
under no circumstances can the connection hang. In testing, I found
that there are instances where the client is expecting user input. For
example, if the server is not in known_hosts, dbclient asks to accept
the connection. In another instance, sending a bad key caused the
connection attempt to hang (forever, it seemed).
dropbear client has -K which is nice, but what's needed sometimes is -D
("die after"). eg:
dbclient -i /path/to/key -D 30 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dbclient will return an exit code after 30 seconds if nothing transpires.
Is there such a feature or a way to work around?
