Re: .ssh/config equivalent of -q ?

From: Richard Blasiak <blasiak@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:01:23 -0400

One way that may work to supress the banner on the ssh client-side is to
take advantage of the fact that the client sends the banner to stderr.

So a command like the following may work for you.

ssh user@hostname 2>/dev/null

Some caveats:
This will also supress any other information that is sent to stderr
Some hosts may implement the 'banner' function differently so that the
banner is not sent to stderr.

Rick Blasiak

blasiak@xxxxxxxxxx

References:
- Re: .ssh/config equivalent of -q ?
  - From: Jeremy C. Reed

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