Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner

From	Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner
Date	2019-08-05 19:26 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:34:15 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:36:34 -0400, Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Answer: use the Banner setting in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. It takes a
>> filename, and the contents of that will be shown before login.
>
> Interesting idea, in that I could put escape codes in the file shown
> that would change the foreground and/or background colours with different
> ones on different systems, however it would have the problem of leaving
> those colours set on exiting from the ssh session, as there is no option
> to display a file on exiting.

Use ~/.bash_logout to do whatever you like at that point. I test the
environment variable SSH_CLIENT to make decisions about what to do
during log in/out.

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  Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2019-08-05 10:35 -0500
    Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner "J.B. Wood" <arl_123234@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-05 12:06 -0400
      Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-08-05 18:36 +0000
        Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-08-05 16:34 -0400
          Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2019-08-05 15:47 -0500
            Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-08-05 17:36 -0400
          Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-08-05 23:02 +0000
          Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-08-05 19:26 -0500
        Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner "J.B. Wood" <arl_123234@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-06 06:39 -0400
      Re: Pre-logon (warning) Banner Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2019-08-05 14:17 -0500

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