Thanks! This really is the power of a forum.
It would have taken a long time before this variant with a 'half' username would have popped up in my mind with
<domain-name>@ssh.strato.com
Testing to be sure and how to use it, and then another puzzle coming up.
The process now proceeding to asking for password, but no pasting of text possible and any keyboard input blocked except <Return>,
which in turn does produce the not very useful response to try again ......
[the <domain-name> in the code below is a 'placeholder'!]
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ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
Permission denied, please try again.
[email protected]'s password:
Now to find a way to break out of that circle:

Anton