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#46170 - 07/10/08 07:49 PM Pre Login message?
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Shinobi UGN Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 390 Asheville, NC	Ok here is a question that I have yet to find an answer to so hopefully you nerds can help me. I'm planning on using my BSD box for free shell accounts and what I need is for when someone connects via SSH/telnet something along these lines pop up Welcome to ninjaBSD. If you are a new user please login with new login: Only real thing I have found in regards to changing the message is editing the default: line in /etc/gettytab but that didn't seem to work, in ssh anyway, didn't try in telnet/local login situations. So anyone who knows how this can be accomplished/if it can be please let me know Oh its freebsd 7.0 "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein Tech Ninja Security

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#46179 - 07/11/08 04:37 AM Re: Pre Login message? [Re: Shinobi]
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,195 Gremelin Community Owner
Gremelin Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,195 Likes: 3 Portland, OR; USA	To enable a SSH Banner you'll need to: Create a banner: nano -w /etc/ssh/sshd-banner Populate the banner file with: Welcome to NinjaShell! (UGN Security was here) Open your SSHd Config: nano -w /etc/sshd/sshd_config Add in a line pointing to your banner: Banner /etc/ssh/sshd-banner Save the file and restart your SSHd server: /etc/init.d/sshd restart Test by logging into server; it should respond: Welcome to NinjaShell! (UGN Security was here) [email protected]'s password: Donate to UGN Security here. UGN Security, Back of the Web, and VNC Web Services Owner

#46191 - 07/11/08 05:07 PM Re: Pre Login message? [Re: Gremelin]
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Shinobi UGN Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 390 Asheville, NC	will this carry over to say telnet, or will I have to do the samething with telnet "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein Tech Ninja Security

#46192 - 07/11/08 05:32 PM Re: Pre Login message? [Re: Shinobi]
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Gremelin Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,195 Likes: 3 Portland, OR; USA	Originally Posted By: Shinobi will this carry over to say telnet, or will I have to do the samething with telnet Telnet discloses all text you type and recieve in your session in plaintext; you should disable telnet and force usage of SSH Donate to UGN Security here. UGN Security, Back of the Web, and VNC Web Services Owner

#46196 - 07/12/08 09:26 PM Re: Pre Login message? [Re: Gremelin]
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Gremelin Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,195 Likes: 3 Portland, OR; USA	BTW, just an FYI; applying a banner for telnet is much the same with the configuration file. On a RedHat Linux (or derivative, such as CentOS, RHEL, or Fedora) machine, it should simply feed out what is in the "/etc/issue.net" file as the Telnet Banner. Donate to UGN Security here. UGN Security, Back of the Web, and VNC Web Services Owner

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#46201 - 07/14/08 12:35 AM Re: Pre Login message? [Re: Gremelin]
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Shinobi UGN Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 390 Asheville, NC	I got the banner using round about your method. However it only displays the message after the person tries to login IE: login: user Welcome to NinjaBSD! Login with new if new user password: in the gettytab man pages it specifies something about using im and if however both are already specified and the if string is currently pointing to the banner. Here is a c&p of my current gettytab default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: :if=/etc/issue:\ "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein Tech Ninja Security

#46202 - 07/14/08 12:36 AM Re: Pre Login message? [Re: Shinobi]
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Shinobi UGN Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 390 Asheville, NC	i only have 387 posts? wtf? "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein Tech Ninja Security

#46203 - 07/14/08 02:01 AM Re: Pre Login message? [Re: Shinobi]
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IceMyst UGN Elite Poster Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,449 Where ever Gizmo is	that's what you get for disappearing shin :P Hell hath no fury like a womens anger and damn be the fool who gets in her way Donate to the "Baby Trey's Digital Camera" fund here .

#46204 - 07/14/08 02:44 AM Re: Pre Login message? [Re: IceMyst]
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Shinobi UGN Member Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 390 Asheville, NC	yeah well......... wow I joined in 02 that was before either of my kids were born.... Last edited by Shinobi; 07/14/08 02:45 AM. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein Tech Ninja Security

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