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Baptiste Mille-Mathias
Asked: 2018-07-18 00:53:14 +0800 CST

what is the difference between /etc/issue.net and /etc/issue

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What are their purpose as they have the same content ?

[me@myserver ~]$ cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)
Kernel \r on an \m

[me@myserver ~]$ cat /etc/issue.net
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)
Kernel \r on an \m
linux

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  1. Best Answer

    Both /etc/issue.net and /etc/issue are used to display a banner (e.g. welcome line/ warning..) to SSH users before the login prompt:

    • /etc/issue.net is shown to the users who connect from the network.
    • /etc/issue is shown to both local users and network users unless /etc/issue.net is present and configured.

    Also, to configure them to be displayed when you login via SSH, you need to uncomment #Banner and specify the desired filename at /etc/ssh/sshd_config, like:

    Banner /etc/issue.net

    The filename /etc/issue.net is the historical location for pre-login banners for network logins using protocols like telnet or rlogin. Some Unix vendors had a version of telnetd, rshd and/or rlogind that used /etc/issue for network logins too; others made it configurable like sshd does now.

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