Force sshd to prompt username

Ziirish ziirish at ziirish.info
Fri Jan 20 04:21:46 AEDT 2017


* On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 10:46 PM +0530, Sudarshan Soma <sudarshan12s at gmail.com> wrote:
> No. I am trying to invoke ssh command from my code something like
> system("ssh ip -p <port>")  as custom action and would want the sshd to
> handle Login screens (prompting user/passwd., etc)  .

Well then just write a wrapper script around SSH like this:

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#!/bin/bash

read -p "Username: " RUSER
ssh -l $RUSER myserver

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