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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:13:11
Message-Id: 7573e9640602270900p350fb7b5lfe5074f0651e3298@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information by Marco Calviani
1 On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > After having enabled the file in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file with
3 >
4 > Banner /etc/issue
5 >
6 > file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string.
7 > However i'm not seeing the effective system name, kernel etc.... but only this:
8 >
9 > This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t
10 >
11 > Password:
12 >
13 > it seems that the escape character is not correctly identified.
14 >
15 > What i'm doing wrong?
16
17 Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program,
18 which is used for console logins. You should still be able to use the
19 color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes. But
20 the substitution stuff is getty specific, and will not work with ssh.
21
22 -Richard
23
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Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com>