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Make a command timeout if not completed in a certain amount of time

Hello,
I'm trying to bascailly find out how i can basically have a script that can properly test for ssh connectivity.

basically one way i can see is:
ssh ipaddress exit
echo $?

if 0 then ok if not then failure etc etc

but of course this is to test passwordless ssh connectivity is running ok, therefor if it isn't and it gets asked for a password this is no good, and i don't want to test with telnet ipaddress 22 because that doesn't really tell you much.

So either a way to make the command timeout if it asks for a password without changing the timeout on the config file, like an escape character being sent to the command after so much time, or i thought possibly read stdin and if it says about entering a password then again we know its failed and can exit and know the ssh didn't work passwordlessly.

Anyideas??

Cheers

Hi.

Code:

ISHELLO=`ssh ipaddress "echo hello"` &

SSHPID=$!

sleep 3

if [ x$ISHELLO != "xhello" ] || [ ps -ef | grep 'ssh ipaddress "echo hello"' | grep $SSHPID ]

then

    echo failure

fi

should do it.

$! == the PID of the last command, to see if the ssh connection is still running, and the 'hello' should end up in $ISHELLO if the ssh connection is successful.

thanks but that didn't work, and i sorted out my own script now so it all works, unles you can see a reason my method would fail for some reason i've missed

Code:

#!/bin/bash

#IP Address you want to test ssh on

ipaddress=PUT ip ADDRESS in this SPACE

#send ssh command if connect then exit but get the PID regardless

ssh $ipaddress exit & getPidOf=$!

#sleep give chance to connect

sleep 5

#Check if connect is still running, might not have found a connection,

#in which case ssh PID would have exited, might be stuck on the password,

#in which case ssh PID is still open, or might have connected then

#exited, so PID is gone

ps -ef | grep "ssh $ipaddress exit"

#test if SSH command is still running

success=$?

#Is it still running Yes/No

if [ `echo 'x'$success'x'` = 'x0x' ]; then

#Was still running might be stuck on password or not timeout yet

echo "PID STILL ALIVE"

#Kill off SSH PID

kill -9 $getPidOf

echo "SSH ERROR"

else

#SSH PID not running exited either no host or success

echo "PID DEAD"

#test ssh again

ssh $ipaddress exit

#if success then exit code=0 otherwise something else e.g 255

Success=`echo $?`

#was it success?

if [ `echo 'x'$Success'x'` = 'x0x' ]; then

#yes exit code= 0

echo SSH WORKING FINE 

SSHWORKING=yes

else

#no ok must be no connection to host

echo ERROR

fi

fi

#echo $getPidOf #Used for testing



if [ $SSHWORKING = yes ];then

commands enter here

fi

exit

This works but might be over complicated who knows, i no longer need it anyway thought up a better way to do what i want but still if anyone wants it its here for ya
Regards
Mark