From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A144138359 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 05:12:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54DF9E0831; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 05:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7527E0814 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 05:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 06B5Cbnq005389 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:12:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh defaults to coming in as user "root"? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20200710230851.GA19867@waltdnes.org> <20200711003603.GA20245@waltdnes.org> From: Grant Taylor Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 23:12:37 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200711003603.GA20245@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ab743280-b460-4c7a-992c-1f7378190d53 X-Archives-Hash: 8a434c3ea622bb9a9df2c0d100563ddb On 7/10/20 6:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > The question is how did .ssh/config ever get there in the first place? Seeing as how there is a Host entry with your notebook's name, I can only speculate that you, or something you ran, put it there. I find the KeyAlgorithms line to be atypical as well. Is there a chance that you used a fancy wrapper, possibly menu driven, that might have updated the ~/.ssh/config file? -- Grant. . . . unix || die