From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:00:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640602270900p350fb7b5lfe5074f0651e3298@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da5cd1900602270744t10b56902t@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> After having enabled the file in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file with
>
> Banner /etc/issue
>
> file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string.
> However i'm not seeing the effective system name, kernel etc.... but only this:
>
> This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t
>
> Password:
>
> it seems that the escape character is not correctly identified.
>
> What i'm doing wrong?
Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program,
which is used for console logins. You should still be able to use the
color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes. But
the substitution stuff is getty specific, and will not work with ssh.
-Richard
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 15:44 [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information Marco Calviani
2006-02-27 16:42 ` Willie Wong
2006-02-27 17:00 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-02-27 18:43 ` Marco Calviani
2006-02-27 19:45 ` Richard Fish
2006-02-27 20:15 ` Willie Wong
2006-02-27 20:31 ` Greg Bur
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