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Hi!

Is there any known solution how to use check_by_ssh (or similar) plugin with ssh password authentication? We think that in our case authorized keys is not so great idea, and we'd like to use password-based authentication.

Thanks in advance!

check_by_ssh doesn't do this, but it would be fairly simple to write a plugin that does. You would probably need to store the password somewhere in plain text though, which is equivalent to using ssh keys. My advice would be to just use keys.