[Info-vax] Silly with VMS access via SSH

[Jilly]

Looks like this has been a known restriction for a long time with SSH.  Maybe 
a workaround using SSH_BANNER_MESSAGE will suffice.


In article <u4jcm2$2gt09$1 at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> 
wrote:
>Just a silly that I have ignored for years. It was the same with the 
>setup for work, and is still present with 9.2-1, and now bugs me!
>
>I have both sys$announce and sys$welcome logicals defined:
>
>$ sho lo sys$announce, sys$welcome
>    "SYS$ANNOUNCE" = "@SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.TXT" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
>
>    "SYS$WELCOME" = "@SYS$MANAGER:WELCOME.TXT" (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
>
>Both files exist, but when I login using SSH, I get the welcome.txt 
>displayed when I login, but before I do, I get:
>
>Using username "townleyc".
>Pre-authentication banner message from server:
>|
>| @SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.TXT
>End of banner message from server
>Authenticating with public key "XXXXXXXXX at XXXXXX"
>
>followed by the text in welcome.txt
>
>If I set host from another node, or with set host 0 both are displayed 
>as usual
>
>Both files exist, and have w:re protection
>
>How can I get SSH to display ANNOUNCE.TXT ?
>