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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:39:36 +1100
From:      Greg Lane <gregory.lane@anu.edu.au>
To:        James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sshd Banner option
Message-ID:  <20020110153936.A28566@nucl03.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <86n0zmuan2.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net>; from jtm63@enteract.com on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:50:57PM -0600
References:  <86n0zmuan2.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net>

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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:50:57PM -0600, James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com> wrote:
> According to the man page, the Banner option in the sshd config file
> is supposed to display the contents of a file when ssh'ing to the
> machine. I can't get the file to display. And I'm forcing protocol 2.
> 
> Does this option really work?
> 

Seems to!

1>xxxxx@yyyyy:~$ more /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep Banner
Banner /etc/issue.net
2>xxxxx@yyyyy:~$ more /etc/issue.net

        ***** This service is for authorised clients only *****
****************************************************************************
* WARNING:      It is a criminal offence to:                               *
*               i. Obtain access to data without authority                 *
*               ii Damage, delete, alter or insert data without authority  *
****************************************************************************

3>xxxxx@yyyyy:~$ ssh 127.0.0.1

        ***** This service is for authorised clients only *****
****************************************************************************
* WARNING:      It is a criminal offence to:                               *
*               i. Obtain access to data without authority                 *
*               ii Damage, delete, alter or insert data without authority  *
****************************************************************************

xxxxx@127.0.0.1's password: 


I am running stable as of 2 or 3 days ago and forcing to ssh version 2 also:

9>xxxxx@yyyyy:~$ more /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep -A 1 -B 1 Protocol

Port 22
Protocol 2

Cheers,
Greg

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