Re: [gentoo-user] ssh defaults to coming in as user "root"?

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 07:49:37PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote

> Keep in mind that the username is set by the CLIENT, not the server,
> so that is where the issue lies if it isn't using the username you
> want it to.

  Doing some more googling.  Lots of hits about people who want to log
in as root (opposite of me).  Apparently, you need a .ssh/config file to
force that.  I don't remember ever setting one one up.  But I looked in
.ssh; lo and behold, there it was.  "cat" showed that its contents were

Host thimk
        KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
  User root

  I renamed the file, and behaviour returned to expected behaviour...

[i660][waltdnes][~] ssh thimk
[thimk][waltdnes][~]

  The question is how did .ssh/config ever get there in the first place?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
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