I would suggest you provide them a public key. So here is what I would do: 1) create user/s 2) generate a public key for each user 3) use the public key for login 4) disable access unless used with public keys Just my 2 cents. Remo On 7/14/09 12:04 PM, "Robert Hajime Lanning" <robert.lanning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:55 AM, J. Bakshi<bakshi12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:52 +0200 >> matteo filippetto <matteo.filippetto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thanks for your response but I have not found yet what I'm looking for. >> I need the configuration which actually suppress the hostname and the >> domain/IP on client side. client will only be prompted for password. >> The second thing the sshd should allow the client to be connected even >> half an hour with out executing any command. Any such configuration >> in openssh ? > > The idle logout, isn't sshd. It is the shell. Look into the "autologout" > environment veriable for bash. > > As for the client password prompt, that is not controllable from the > server side, without dropping everything and going for > "keyboard interactive" authentication. For that, you will have to > code your own authentication method.
