ssh pre-login message

[Oliver Fromme]

Jakob Breivik Grimstveit <jakob at grimstveit.no> wrote:
 > Aaron Holmes wrote on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 03:11:
 > > I'm not entirely sure this is the proper place for this, but how can i 
 > > get a pre-login message to show up before the "login as:" prompt  on
 > > freebsd 5x
 > 
 > From `man sshd_config`:
 > 
 >      Banner  In some jurisdictions, sending a warning message before authenti-
 >              cation may be relevant for getting legal protection.  The con-
 >              tents of the specified file are sent to the remote user before
 >              authentication is allowed.  This option is only available for
 >              protocol version 2.  By default, no banner is displayed.

In case the OP had local logins in mind (syscons, not ssh),
the have a look at the gettytab(5) manpage.  It documents
two capabilities that can be added to /etc/gettytab for
local logins:  The "im" capability for short banner strings
(one line) that will be printed before the login prompt,
and the "if" capability to specify a file name.

After changing the gettytab, you need to kill the getty
processes.  They will be restarted automatically by init(8).

Best regards
   Oliver

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