{"id":17,"date":"2008-02-21T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T17:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-05-10T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T04:53:16","slug":"ascii-art-for-your-ssh-logins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/ascii-art-for-your-ssh-logins\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCII Art for your SSH logins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a nice way to spice up your SSH logins.<\/p>\n

To create a cool ASCII art banner for your server, first start off by going here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.network-science.de\/ascii\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Type your server name into the text field. On the font choice, select “_all fonts with your text_”. Click OK to generate the ASCII art. Copy the one you like into the clipboard.<\/p>\n

Or you can go to chris.com and find some cool ASCII ART that you like.<\/p>\n

On your server, create the file \/etc\/banner<\/strong><\/p>\n

sudo touch \/etc\/banner<\/div><\/div>\n

Open the \/etc\/banner file with your favorite text editor and paste the ASCII art into the file.<\/p>\n

Open \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config<\/strong> with your favorite text editor and change the “Banner” directive to:<\/p>\n

Banner \/etc\/banner<\/div><\/div>\n

Restart SSH<\/p>\n

sudo \/etc\/init.d\/ssh restart<\/div><\/div>\n

\"ascii-art-unicorn\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a nice way to spice up your SSH logins. To create a cool ASCII art banner for your server, first start off by going here: http:\/\/www.network-science.de\/ascii\/ Type your server name into the text field. On the font choice, select “_all fonts with your text_”. Click OK to generate the ASCII art. Copy the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prpYG-h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}