Re: Banner length

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 01/28/04

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To: Lindberg Neil J CONT DLVA <LindbergNJ@NSWC.NAVY.MIL>

    Lindberg Neil J CONT DLVA wrote:
    > The initial warning banner (/etc/issue) we use is 1183 characters in length.
    > This works fine for telnet and ftp; however, openssh will truncate it at
    > 1024 characters. Is there a way to allow the full banner to be displayed.

    Known issue, already fixed in the current code. There's a small patch
    here (you want attachment id 421):

    http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668 

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