Display username and host when prompting for password

From: Thomas Guettler (guettli_at_thomas-guettler.de)
Date: 07/26/05 

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:28:27 +0200

Hi,

Older versions did display username and hostname when
ssh asks for a password.

Is there a way to get this again?

Version: OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004

Background: If you use ssh in ProxyCommand
you don't know which password you need. 

-- 
Thomas Güttler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/

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