How to keep "last successful login" from printing to the screen

[dev44]

Hi,

Every time I run a script where I have to ssh to the remote servers (all the time) the ouput keeping coming up with lines and lines of "last successful login", etc. I know how to disable it, but the other unix admin wants to keep it there. Is there a way to have it not ouput to the screen? I tried >/dev/null and that doesn't work.

[Patrick Wallek]

How are you using ssh in your script?

Are you doing 'ssh host command' to execute a command on the remote system?

If you are just doing a 'ssh host' how are you then interacting with the session that is established?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

ssh_config and sshd_config are both very well documented.

A look there will show you how to change default login behavior.

This does not happen with telnet so its not likely coming from the .profile or /etc/profile

SEP

[dev44]

Hi,

Yes "ssh server command"

[Patrick Wallek]

Well, I'm not sure why you would be getting the "last successful login" messages then. When I do "ssh host date" I just get the date returned. Perhaps something in the command you are running is causing this. This does not sound normal to me.

[dev44]

You can turn it off by going into smh "security attributes" then "system defaults" and set DISPLAY_LAST_LOGIN to 0. Problem is that we need to have it turned on but when I run scripts I don't want all that printed out to the screen every time.

[dev44]

I had sudo in the script....that's where it was coming from.