A banner.

[Darren Tucker]

Alexander K. wrote:
> I am using OpenSSH 3.6.2.
> Banner printed to stderr. There are also some errors
> that can discovered only when checking stderr output
> (even when sftp return status is 0). I have script
> which using sftp in batch mode to perform some
> actions. When there is a banner in use, I have no way
> to detect the errors correctly.

Newer ssh's (>= 3.8x, I think) allow suppression of the banner on the 
client side with "ssh -q".

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