[NTLUG:Discuss] Stupid PuTTY vs. ssh question

[Cameron, Thomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cox [mailto:cjcox at acm.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:17 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Stupid PuTTY vs. ssh question
> 
> 
> Cameron, Thomas wrote:
> > All -
> > 
> > We have set up a legal warning banner for our servers.  I 
> set "Banner /etc/issue.net" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and if I 
> ssh from one Linux host to another I get the banner.  If I 
> ssh using PuTTY I don't get the banner.  I've looked through 
> the options in PuTTY and I can't see anything that looks like 
> an "ignore banner" setting.
> > 
> > Am I smoking crack, or does PuTTY just ignore banners?
> 
> Yes... I think you are correct.
> 
> Preauthentication banners are NOT required to be supported
> by any ssh client.  Just so happens that openssh clients
> support it.

The plot thickens!

If I set:

Protocol 2

in sshd_config, the banner prints!  So ssh v2 + PuTTY = banner printing, but ssh v1 + PuTTY doesn't.

Curiouser and curiouser.

--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America
(972) 997-9641

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