[Info-vax] Setting ssh banners with Multinet V4.4

[Scott Dorsey]

Reposting this with the references field cleaned up (sorry abour that):

So, I have a machine running Multinet V4.4 which I have inherited, and it
needs to have banners turned on for ssh connections.  Unfortunately the docs
I have are all V4.2 or earlier, and the ones on the web are all V5.0 or later
and the early ones have no ssh and the later ones appear to be very different.

Looking at the system, I went to 
    multinet_specific:root:[multinet.ssh2]sshd2_config.
which should be the valid sshd configuration file.  I removed the comment
from the following line:
        BannerMessageFile               "sys$manager:ssh_banner.txt"

And that now should turn the banners on, right?  I put an appropriate
banner in the ssh_banner.txt file but nothing happens.  Restarting the
server gives no error message but no banners.  Rebooting does nothing.

So my suspicion is that it's either not reading that config file or else
it doesn't know what to do with the BannerMessageFile line.

If I go into multinet configure/servers and set the parameter "port 512"
on the ssh server, it doesn't move to port 512.  So clearly the parameter
setting information in the V5.0 manual does not apply to V4.4, and quite
possibly other things don't either.

Any suggestions?  Oh, running VMS 7.2-2 for whatever that is worth.
--scott


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