Re: ssh banners OpenSSH_3.6.1p2

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: 01 Dec 2004 02:44:13 GMT

In article <ef6d469b.0411301653.4dc285b1@posting.google.com>,
Diatonic <diatonic_sequences@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I'm running banners on my servers via /etc/sshd_config banners. This
>gets highly annoying when I scp or sftp. I have many scripts that
>perform scp's in order which ends up printing my banner way too many
>times. Is there any way to supress this?

Newer OpenSSH's allow the banner to be suppressed with "ssh -q" aka
"sftp -o LogLevel=QUIET".

If upgrading isn't an option, then you can redirect either stderr or stdin
(I forget which it is) to /dev/null. 

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