Hi, I don't think you can avoid it - the best you can do is to put "something@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 <m...@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. > >