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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2003 13:02:44 -0700
From:      Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com>
To:        David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za>, Supote leelasupphakorn <pjn0211@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSH login banner: IP address instead of DNS name
Message-ID:  <p05210600bb27995038bc@[63.202.92.152]>
In-Reply-To: <20030701190454.GA2286@rucus.net>
References:  <20030701104142.76899.qmail@web40608.mail.yahoo.com> <20030701190454.GA2286@rucus.net>

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At 9:04 PM +0200 7/1/03, David Siebörger wrote:
>At 12:41 PM on Tuesday  1 July 2003, Supote leelasupphakorn wrote:
>>  > Hi again. When I SSH into my 4.8 box, the first line of the banner is:
>>  > Last login: Mon Jun 30 19:31:44 2003 from 15-characters-of-a-host-name
>>  > That DNS name is truncated to 15 characters. I would much prefer an
>>  > IP address. What do I need to change to get this?
>>
>>  > --Paul Hoffman
>
>Run sshd with the -u 15 option.  You can do so by adding this line to
>/etc/rc.conf:
>
>     sshd_flags="-u 15"

Perfect, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks!



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