https://ngmarley.com/blog/tag/ubuntu-sshd/Recent content in Ubuntu-Sshd on ngmarley.comHugoen-usWed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://ngmarley.com/blog/remove-ubuntudebian-version-from-sshd-server-string/Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://ngmarley.com/blog/remove-ubuntudebian-version-from-sshd-server-string/<p>For security reasons, I don&rsquo;t like that &ldquo;Debian/Ubuntu&rdquo; shows up on my sshd server string.</p> <p>You can see the sshd server identification string by telnetting to port 22.</p> <p><code>$ telnet ngmarley.com 22 Trying 106.187.97.211... Connected to ngmarley.com. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-3ubuntu1 ^] telnet&gt; quit Connection closed.</code></p> <p>It&rsquo;s very simple to just remove the &ldquo;Debian&hellip;&rdquo; part off the end.</p> <p>Just edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and append</p> <p><code>DebianBanner no</code></p> <p>to it.</p> <p>Then re-start your sshd:</p>