IOS - ssh to vty using line password?

[j.herbert]

I gather that using ssh to connect to an IOS router, I cannot use a line password to authenticate the connections (as ssh requires username _and_ password).

I can't find out if Cisco has either:

- provided a workaround other than "use local auth"

- provided a new 'line username' facility

- provided a default username (like the PIX has, as I recall)

Does anybody know? I'd prefer not to use local usernames if I can avoid it.

Thanks in advance.

[b.hsu]

The only way that I know of is using username [username] password [password].

[j.herbert]

Fair enough - about what I expected. username/password it is then ;-) Thanks.

[tuluu]

You can login by leaving the username blank and just use you line password.

[j.herbert]

Ah - so there is a kind of default username... "".

Thanks Tuluu. Do you know if that has always been the case?