Re: How can I get the login prompt

> > The requirement is when I do a ssh <host name>, we expect a login
> > prompt to enter the UserID and Passwd. Presently when I do ssh
> > <hostname> -l <user id> it works. Our requiremenet is we donot want
> > to use the ssh with -l option, instead we expect a login prompt to
> > enter the userid.
>
> -------------- sshwithusernameprompt.sh --------------------
> #/bin/sh

should be

        exec ssh -l "${LOGINNAME}" "$@"

Other than that, both correct and funny as hell.

I didn't catch the beginning of this thread, but the original poster may want to consider alternate authentication methods (hostbased or pubkey based possibly with an ssh-agent) since they could eliminate the need for username/password auth in the first place.

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