That prompt is being shown by the SSH client. You could write a script to accept the password. Or implement a client yourself. On Thursday, July 16, 2009, J. Bakshi <bakshi12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:01:15 -0400 > Greg Wooledge <wooledg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:04:45AM -0700, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: >> > The idle logout, isn't sshd. It is the shell. Look into the >> > "autologout" environment veriable for bash. >> >> Many NAT firewalls also have a connection timeout that affects ssh >> users. Setting the ServerAliveInternal (or the corresponding server >> configuration option) allows persistent ssh connections through such >> firewalls, which would otherwise expire idle connections. >> >> > > matteo filippetto <matteo.filippetto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > I need the configuration which actually suppress the hostname and >> > > the domain/IP on client side. client will only be prompted for >> > > password. >> >> If I'm reading this right, you want the client to be able to reach >> only one server. E.g., user types "go" and the "go" script runs >> ssh someuser@xxxxxxxxx (which is a trivial script to write). >> >> No server configuration option would be necessary or useful in that >> case. >> >> If you mean something else by "suppress the hostname and the domain/IP >> on client side", then I don't understand the question. > > Ok here is an example. Say there is a Host configuration as myserver in my .ssh/config file. Now if I do > > > ``````````` > # ssh myserver > > username@xxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: > ``````````````````` > > I like to suppress the information username@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and it should prompt only the password: > I like to know the configuration for both server side and clinet side to suppress the information; if any. > > thanks > -- warm regards, Akash Mahajan ---------------------------------------------------------- Security Consultant, (Web / Networks / Servers / IT/ Virtualization) Founder Headstart Network Foundation ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.linkedin.com/in/akashm http://network.headstart.in ----------------------------------------------------------
