{"id":100,"date":"2007-06-24T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/esx-security-banner-at-console-login-with-color.html"},"modified":"2007-06-24T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T20:54:00","slug":"esx-security-banner-at-console-login-with-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/esx-security-banner-at-console-login-with-color\/","title":{"rendered":"ESX: Security Banner at Console Login with Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

The guys at XtraVirt have a good article: ESX3: Security Banner at Console Login<\/a>. This article tells you how to customize your login prompt and message of the day.<\/p>\n

Good information for those that want to customize their login banners. This article actually works for ESX 2.x and above.<\/p>\n

I ran across an application that allows me to easily add color to this login banner, if your console\/ssh client supports it.<\/p>\n

The application is MOTD Maker. You can find it here: http:\/\/edeca.net\/site\/programs:motdmaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

So I took the default banner from the above article:<\/p>\n

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********************************************** WARNING: SECURITY MESSAGE  ********  AUTHORIZED ACCESS TO THIS SYSTEM  ****              ONLY!                 **** ACCESS MUST BE CLEARED WITH ONSITE ****         SECURITY CONTROLLER        **********************************************************************************<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And pasted it into the MOTD Maker.  Adding colors is really easy with the MOTD Maker, just select the text…
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Select the color you wish to make it:
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Now the color will change.
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Now I made it uniform by selecting the other asterisks.
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Now select “Generate ANSI” and either cave this to a file, or save it to your clipboard.  I recommend saving it to a file.  I’ve had some issues with puTTY when it comes to pasting.
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If you saved it to a file, you can upload that to your ESX server, and rename it to \/etc\/motd or \/etc\/issue.<\/p>\n
Additionally, one thing that they didn’t mention in the above mentioned article… \/etc\/issue is for local console connections, and \/etc\/issue.net is for ssh\/terminal connections.<\/p>\n
That being said, you could have different information for local or remote connections.  And because \/etc\/motd is run after login, you can add additional information there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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