consent to monitoring banner for ssh

Joey Prestia joey at linuxamd.com
Tue Dec 4 20:53:07 UTC 2007


Bill Tangren wrote:
> A new policy has been implemented here at work. The old policy stated
> that, when someone logs in to a system via ssh, I had to display a consent
> to monitor banner, which is easy to implement.
>
> The new policy, however, requires that the user has to somehow signify
> that they have read and will abide by the policy. In essence, I have to
> get a yes or no input from the user, possibly just after they log on, and
> if they say no, log them off. If they say yes, they get to proceed.
>
> My question: what is the best way to implement this? I have to make sure
> the user cannot remove this functionality for future logins, so I can't
> put it in any of their login scripts. This is easy to implement for GUI
> logins, but I don't know the best way to proceed for ssh. Any ideas?
>
>
>   
Put it in the sshd.conf the option to use a login banner and create the 
banner file with what you want it to say and then restart sshd they will 
see it before the login and acceptance of it by logging in.




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