Hi,
I am trying to configure new banners for our switches and routers that show up when connecting to the devices using SSH (version 2).
It works well except that I am not able to display banner tokens with the "banner login" command.
To explain what I mean, the following configuration is done on the switch:
banner login '
Login Banner: $(hostname)
'
banner exec '
Exec Banner: $(hostname)
'
banner motd '
Motd Banner: $(hostname)
'
When I connect using SSH I get the following result:
login as: admin
Login Banner: $(hostname)
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Motd Banner: CAT4948
Exec Banner: CAT4948
CAT4948#
As you can see the hostname in the login banner is not translated, but the one in motd and exec is.
This example was taken connecting with PuTTY using SSH version 2 to a Catalyst 4948 running version 12.2(53)SG2.
According to the documentation it looks like it should work also for the login banner:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2/configfun/command/reference/frf004.html#wp1017507
Do you know what could be the issue and how this could be solved?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Best regards,
Harry
