On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> > 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.
>
> thanks for sharing this info. It comes completely new for me. So, as
> far as i understand, there is no way of having this info with ssh
> login? Am i right?
>

Look and see if you have an /etc/issue.net

All of my old RedHat boxes used that file to display a logon banner via
ssh.