SSH timeout on password challenge.

[David Rysdam]

Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> writes:
> establish, NOT for when a password challenge happens.  My script is 
> using the timeout command:
>
> timeout 5 ssh -n $host 'blahblahblah'
>
> Any bright ideas on how to do this gracefully?

How is this the first I've ever heard of 'timeout'? I would have
resorted to 'expect' by this time. That may still help you out here, but
maybe it's doing the same thing 'timeout' does and won't work any
better.