How to display IP of ssh user in message?

Ryan Golhar golharam at umdnj.edu
Fri Apr 15 16:27:29 UTC 2005


Thanks.  This is exactly what I was looking for.  Now, for the second
part...is there a way to display the user's IP address in the banner?



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Ryan Golhar
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:39 AM
To: golharam at umdnj.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Cc: 'Burke, Thomas G.'
Subject: Re: How to display IP of ssh user in message?


On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:28:21AM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> My message might have been a bit confusing.  When a user logs in via 
> ssh, a message can be displayed.  I forget what file this is in.  I 
> want to add their IP address to the message so they know that we know 
> where they are coming from...

See /etc/ssh/sshd_config
There's a commented-out entry for Banner.  I think that's what you're
after. $ man sshd_config

Cheers,
        .../Ed
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