Solaris banners

Hi

I want to restrict warning banner message only to user logins on to our servers which is done using SSH. Once after logging as user the banner should be displyed and not when use 'su' to become root. I know how to store the banner message in /etc/issue and /etc/motd files.

Your help is appreciated.

the dotfiles are concerned, not ssh
in the dotfiles you can define what happen on login
ssh is a login session
su not
su - is also a login session (note the - )

Hi guggachj

Can you pl tell me in which file I have to make the changes to ensure that the banner is displaed only just after logging and not while using 'su'.

Thanks

According to the man page sshd will, by default, cat the contents of /etc/motd (see the PrintMotd option). This would not normally be printed by someone just doing an su, though it would be by someone doing an "su -" as guggach indicated.

The newest implementation of sshd available from OpenSSH includes a Banner option. You can take a look at the man page for it to get an idea of how to use this.

Hi stdunbar

Your response is interesting. We are ok with our Sun Fire V65 Intel systems. The issue is with Sparc. In that again we are ok with SunFire 280. The second Sparc which is an Ultra 5/10 is displaying the banner both at user login and su. I have commented out the concerned line in /etc/ssd/sshd_config of Ultra 5/10 and the file is simialr to that one on SunFire 280.Still the banner is displayed.

Any clues.

Thanks