Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Changing the default user for an ssh login Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 21:30:48 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <001c01c44b1d$45035e80$6401a8c0 AT who5> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040605125859 DOT 0323c398 AT pop DOT theworld DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-137.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1de * Larry Hall (2004-06-05 19:04 +0100) > At 12:50 PM 6/5/2004, you wrote: >>Hello from Gregg C Levine >>I have a question. How can I change the default user of the Cygwin >>version of SSH from my login name to that of the host that I am going >>to be logging into? >> >>In this case it is a Linux box, and the user is root. Examining the >>man page for this version of SSH did not prove to be enlightening. > > This wasn't enlightening? > > SSH(1) BSD General Commands Manual SSH(1) > > NAME > ssh - OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program) > > SYNOPSIS > ssh [-1246AaCfgkNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D port] > [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-i identity_file] > [-L port:host:hostport] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-o option] > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > [-p port] [-R port:host:hostport] [user@]hostname [command] ^^^^^ ...also... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/