Ubuntu
openssh package

  1. Bug #53753
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 53753

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote :

Right, for ssh, use the -l option to specify a valid username.

ssh xxx.yyy.zzz.sss -l carthik will let me login as carthik

Since you are running the command as root, it tries to login as root and begets the message it does.