Creating banner for ssh server

A banner for ssh server is a few phrase that will come out the time you want to access a server through ssh. By default, this feature is turned off. To turned it on:

1. Login as 'root'
   
2. Create your banner file first. In this example, i will create banner file named /home/banner
   
• # vi /home/banner
• Insert your banner message to the file. I will insert 'Welcome to my pc'
3. After you have finish with the banner file, open /etc/sshd_config
   
• # vi /etc/sshd_config
• Uncomment or add the following line
• Banner /home/banner
4. Restart ssh server
   
• # /etc/init.d/sshd restart
5. When you login, this will be displayed
• # ssh pingu@10.20.20.171
  Welcome to my pc
  pingu@10.20.20.171's password: