Dropbear calling my own command-line parser than /bin/sh

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Wed Sep 26 20:27:23 WST 2012


Hi,

I don't think you can avoid it - the best you can do is to
put "something at 192.168.14.1" in the host field so it'll send
a username without prompting.

The SSH protocol requires a username in all authentication
requests, so PuTTY assumes it's going to be necessary.

Cheers,
Matt

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:51:55AM +0800, chinna obireddy wrote:
> Hey Matt,
> 
> I was able to make it work for any username login return authentication
> success. But the problem is that Putty(Windows) asks for user name, though
> any username will do actually. I don't want the ssh client ask the user to
> enter username at all. How could I achieve that ??
> 
> SSH client:
> 
> Login as: press enter -- shouldn't prompt at all
> username:xxx(CLI auth)
> password:xxx(CLI auth)
> 
> Reddy
> 
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Matt Johnston <matt at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Take a look at
> > https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/0edf08895a33 - it
> > sends "success" for the first auth request.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:39:26PM +0800, chinna obireddy wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > As per the thread
> > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.ssh.dropbear/68/focus=75 I was
> > > successfully made changes to launch CLI application with dropbear ssh.
> > >
> > > But Putty(SSH client) is still asking for Login name, though this is not
> > > going to be used It looks weird for user asking user name twice. Since
> > the
> > > CLI application has it's own authentication method.
> > >
> > > Suggest me how can I completely ignore Authentication packets in the
> > server
> > > side.
> > >
> > > --Reddy.
> >


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