Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for. Now, for the second part...is there a way to display the user's IP address in the banner? ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:39 AM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Cc: 'Burke, Thomas G.' Subject: Re: How to display IP of ssh user in message? On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:28:21AM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote: > My message might have been a bit confusing. When a user logs in via > ssh, a message can be displayed. I forget what file this is in. I > want to add their IP address to the message so they know that we know > where they are coming from... See /etc/ssh/sshd_config There's a commented-out entry for Banner. I think that's what you're after. $ man sshd_config Cheers, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list