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...AssignedTo: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org ReportedBy: dtucker at zip.com.au A login attempt by an unknown user (eg via telnet) normally gets logged as: syslog: pts/4: failed login attempt for UNKNOWN_USER from my.host.com This is generated by a call to loginfailed(), which substitutes UNKNOWN_HOST for the username if it doesn't exist. AIX never finds out about it because getpwnamallow returns as soon as it finds no passwd entry. Following patch calls loginfailed before returning. It generates: syslog: ssh: failed login attempt for UNKNOWN_USER from my.host.com ------- You are rec...

Let me start by saying that I think OpenSSH is a great tool and thanks to everyone contributing to it's existence. However, I have a request: I'd like to have a flag that ignores the check of the host key. I'm fully aware of that this opens up for man-in-the-middle attacks and that there is a risk of lazy users mis-using this feature, but it would be very useful for us using SSH in a