How To Add a Welcome Message for SSH Users

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;">Here is a very easy tip on <span style="font-weight: bold;">how to add a welcome message for your SSH users</span><br /></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;">If you want that when users connect to your SSH server, they see a banner welcome message after connecting. Then you need to turn on the banner configuration of SSHd in its config file and then create a banner file.<br /></span><br /> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b><span style="color: #000066;">Step 1</span>:</b></span></div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;">Create a banner file that contains text you want people to see when connecting to your SSH server.</span></div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;">Create and open the banner file:</span></div> <div style="color: #000099; font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><code>[root@amit]# vim /home/username/banner</code></span></div> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;">put your message inside it<br /><br /><code>*****************************************************************<br />*This is a private SSH Server. You are not supposed to be here. *<br />*Your information has </code><code>been logged and a report</code><code> </code><code>has been emailed </code><code>*<br />*to the admin </code><code>concerning your unauthorized attempts.</code><code> * <br />*****************************************************************<br /><br />then save & quit by using <span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">:wq!</span><br /></span></code></span><br /> <div style="color: #000099; font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Step 2:</b></span></div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;">Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to set a default banner path.</span></div> <div style="color: #000099; font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><code>[root@amit]# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config</code></span></div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;">then add the following to the config file:</span></div> <div style="color: #000099; font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><code>Banner /path/to/banner</code></span></div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;">Save the file and quit:<code> <span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 100%;">:wq</span></code></span></div> <div style="color: #000099; font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Step 3:</b></span></div> <div style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;">Restart the sshd server.</span></div> <div style="color: #000099; font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><code>[root@amit] # /etc/init.d/sshd restart</code></span></div> <div style="color: #000099; font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Step 4:</b></span></div> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;">Try SSH to your server and check Welcome banner on login<br /><br /><br />From the desk of <a href="http://www.amitmaheshwari.in/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;">Amit Maheshwari</span></a><br /><br /></span></div>

How To Add a Welcome Message for SSH Users

Here is a very easy tip on how to add a welcome message for your SSH users If you want that when users connect to your SSH server, they ...

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