Re: OpenSSH 4.3 Banner Masking

[Terra Frost <terrafrost () gmail com>]

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my_bit_bucket () yahoo com wrote:
| Is there a way to mask the banner displayed by OpenSSH 4.3 connecting
to the service by SSH?  For example, my test system displays
"SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3" when I "telnet [hostname] 22".

The banner is required per the protocol (RFC 4253).  To quote:

~   When the connection has been established, both sides MUST send an
~   identification string.  This identification string MUST be

~      SSH-protoversion-softwareversion SP comments CR LF
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