This post is for the Administrators who wants to frighten the users and junior administrator whoever logged into the servers to perform some basic tasks on the ESX Servers via SSH.Let’s Look into the step by step procedure.


Log in to ESX server with root credentials. Go to the SSH directory using the following command.

Create a banner file with the name as per your wish. If you are able to identify the file that has been created for the security Banner that will be good. I am creating a file named called “arena-banner”

Type the Banner message which you want to display as a security banner message ( warning message or legal protection) before users login to the server.

Once the banner message is ready, Press CTRL-X and type “Y” to save and enter to save the file name as “Arena-banner”

Now, Edit the file ” sshd_config” to include the security banner file “arena-banner”.

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config and Scroll towards the below section to include the path for banner file.

Remove the # in front of the Banner and include the path for the banner file \etc\ssh\arena-banner and save the file.

Restart the SSH service with the command “service sshd restart ” and Try to login to the server now via SSH.

We are getting the security Banner while login to the server.
Thanks for Reading!!!!