From 7ecca1fd26ff4a4cddb5ae71329bb5fa59fef8a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Jelen <jjelen@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:35:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] auth: Log the username used for authentication

Signed-off-by: Jakub Jelen <jjelen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@cryptomilk.org>
(cherry picked from commit 7e235f8748950b6ef28422f023a86bc8c68a3099)
---
 src/auth.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/auth.c b/src/auth.c
index d5983a65..cdf0ad7e 100644
--- a/src/auth.c
+++ b/src/auth.c
@@ -1294,6 +1294,11 @@ int ssh_userauth_publickey_auto(ssh_session session,
     if (session == NULL) {
         return SSH_AUTH_ERROR;
     }
+
+    SSH_LOG(SSH_LOG_INFO,
+            "Starting authentication as a user %s",
+            username ? username : session->opts.username);
+
     if (! (session->opts.flags & SSH_OPT_FLAG_PUBKEY_AUTH)) {
         session->auth.supported_methods &= ~SSH_AUTH_METHOD_PUBLICKEY;
         return SSH_AUTH_DENIED;