Re: Issue banner, IP of clients

[Alexander Grotewohl <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does it come from a file like /etc/issue or if on Windows, what might it search for?

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From: Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:22:23 AM
To: libssh@xxxxxxxxxx <libssh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Grotewohl <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Issue banner, IP of clients

On Monday, 23 March 2020 20:02:38 CET Alexander Grotewohl wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a couple hopefully quick questions that I've been scratching my head
> on.
>
> A) I haven't been able to find a way to send an "issue banner" to a client
> when acting as a server. Is there a function or a variable to set
> somewhere?

This is done automatically by the server once a client connects. It is part of
the Key Exchange.

> B) I can retrieve the client IP from the socket fd. Is there another
> API-like place this IP is stored that I can use for
> logging/blacklisting/etc?

getpeername() ?


Cheers!


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