On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 09:46:05AM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote: > 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: > Brilliant, thank you, exactly what I wanted! I should have stared at the ssh_config man page for a bit longer and I would have found it. Although reading the entry for HostKeyAlias I might not have realised that it does what I wanted. Thanks again. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
