ssh pre-login message

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Sep 15 04:23:59 PDT 2005


Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
 > 
 > 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),

oops ...  I notice "ssh" was mentioned in the subject.
So forget what I wrote.  :-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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