Supress SSH Login Banner for sftp login

[MikeL_4]

We are running Red Hat Version 5.5 and we have a client that uses sftp to transfer and pick up files from our server...

We have a Login Banner that is displayed for logins, but is there any way to supress this banner for a certain login ID for sftp ??

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

This is controlled by the sshd_config file

As far as I know its all or nothing as far as users.

It is fully documented at http://openssh.org

SEP

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, RHEL 5.x contains OpenSSH 4.3 (+ a lot of backported security patches), which does not yet have the "Match" keyword in sshd_config file.

OpenSSH 4.4 and above would have a "Match" keyword which can be used to implement this requirement.

For example:

# define the common banner
Banner "some text"

# define an exception
Match User someuser
Banner ""

Note: the Match blocks must be placed at the end of the sshd_config file. Since there is no "EndMatch" keyword, all configuration options after the Match line until the end of file or another Match line will be applied to the matching connections only.

MK

[MikeL_4]

Thanks