How to Disable Greeting Message When Ssh in to a Server

How can I disable greeting message when ssh in to a server?

Most sane solution, if it's your own server, would be to disable the motd in in the SSH daemon config. Set PrintMotd in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to no and restart the ssh daemon.

Alternatively, you can try to touch ~/.hushlogin, which creates an empty file in your home folder. Daemons that allow remote logins traditionally check for presence of this file and if it is present, they will let you log in quietly.

How can I edit the welcome message when ssh start?

You need to edit two files:

1. /etc/motd (Message of the Day)
2. /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Change the setting PrintLastLog to "no", this will disable the "Last login" message.

And then restart your sshd.

ssh login without welcome banner

This will run command1 command2 and command3 on the remote_host.

ssh user@remote_host 'command1; command2; command3'

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Suppress welcome message on bash remote command execution

Create a file ~user/.hushlogin on the remote host. This will suppress output from the login program when user logs in (such as time of last login and any message of the day).

Disable ssh message

My answer for now:

 sed -i 's/PrintLastLog yes/PrintLastLog no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
 touch /home/$USER/.hushlogin

I need PrintLastLog no and .hashlogin at home directory.

Linode: SSH shows only welcome message

It appears that the server doesn't support SSH. So using a SFTP client solves the issue.

If you're looking to connect to remote server via SFTP from Ubuntu, then this solution works fine.

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