On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 01:23, Chris Green <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > So when I connect I get a very long "<name>'s password:" which I find > rather distracting, not to mention that it doesn't really tell me what > I'm logging into. If it's SSH "password" authentication, ssh(1) will use the HostKeyAlias (if set) in the prompt: $ ssh -o hostkeyalias=foobar -o preferredauthentications=password localhost dtucker@foobar's password: If it's SSH "keybpoard-interactive" authentication then the prompt might be generated by PAM, and in that case there's not much ssh can do with that. -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at dtucker.net) GPG key 11EAA6FA / A86E 3E07 5B19 5880 E860 37F4 9357 ECEF 11EA A6FA (new) Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev