From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 13: 8:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D55437B417 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:08:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fALL8Mh85682; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:08:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:08:21 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Eugene Bartok Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do disable autologin with ssh Message-ID: <20011121210821.GB7544@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20011121150630.A939@metrotel.net.co> <20011121210505.GA7544@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011121210505.GA7544@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 21), Dan Nelson said: > In the last episode (Nov 21), Eugene Bartok said: > > hi, i want to know how to disable auto login on ssh on freebsd > > -stable? I am looking for the same option as telnet -K. I did no find > > anything on man page. > > That's not possible, since in addition to simply encrypting the > connection, ssh authenticates the user during login. You must pass a > username to ssh, or it won't authenticate you. .. and just after I hit send, I realized that what you might actually have meant to ask is "How do I log into another machine using ssh, but with a different username?" The answer: "ssh user@hostname". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message