openssh-unix-dev Digest, Vol 9, Issue 16

[Darren Tucker]

Jeremy McMillan wrote:
> On Solaris, if you create a banner file /etc/issue it will do what I 
> think you want. However, it comes in on stderr from your ssh client, so 
> you need to do complicated things to get clean output from stderr of 
> remote commands.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is different from the banner option in the 
> sshd_config that everyone's been talking about?

The /etc/issue file is used by Solaris' own services (eg login).  The 
Banner directive is used by sshd to send the contents of the specified 
file to the client for display.

You can use the same file for both purposes (ie put "Banner /etc/issue" 
into sshd_config) or you can use a different file to send a different 
message to ssh users.

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