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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.

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Wednesday November 15, 2006
11:07 AM

ssh motd

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Anyone know what's the intelligent way to connect to a machine with ssh and not see the MOTD? I'm currently redirecting stderr to /dev/null, but obviously that means I miss some errors. The -q option doesn't do it. I can't see anything in the ssh manpage to help. I don't have access to the server config files in question to tell them not to print the MOTD. I can't find a way to pass my ssh client an option to pass to the server to tell it not to do that, but I'm hoping it exists.


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  • ssh won't know anything about the source of the characters, it just transports them. I think you want to create a .hushlogin file to tell the shell not to show you that.

    • Unfortunately I don't have shell access. I'm accessing with SFTP. I guess maybe I can ask the vendor of the box to create the file, though. Thanks!

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
      • You can't transfer a file over SFTP?

        • I can (although I thought I wouldn't have write access). I tried it; it doesn't work. My original response was addressing the fact that the shell was showing me the motd. It's not the shell showing it; it's the sshd. I'm not accessing a shell at any point, to my knowledge. So I guess that's why .hushlogin doesn't work. But thanks for trying to help. At least I learned something. :)

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          J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
  • Try creating a .hushlogin file in the home directory of the account you're connecting to.

    -Matt
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