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I’m trying to ssh into a network. When I get there, it prompts me for the password to the username I had entered with it. However, I don’t remember my username.
Is there any way perhaps to look at all the usernames listed within a network like this? If I can do that, I can figure out which one is mine.
ssh by default will use the username of the account you’re running it from. E.g. If you’re logged into machine A as user ‘xyz’, then by default it’ll transmit “username = xyz” to machine B when you try to ssh to it.
if you want to force a particular username, then use
If you’ve completely forgotten your remote username, then no… ssh will not scan the remote system and tell you what accounts are on it. That’d be a hideously BAD security hole.