On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 07:11:47PM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote: > > On this particular host, I do not have access to change the banner. > > However on a different machine that I do have access to, I did change its > > banner and confirmed that indeed when using the longer one, dbclient > > gives the 'string too long' error and aborts. > > > > Are there any workarounds for this? > > A banner that size should work, there's a limit of 2000 > characters but over that it just doesn't display the banner, > continuing as normal. It seems like something else is going > wrong. What SSH server is being used, and can I connect to > it via the internet (prior to authenticating)? > "telnet servername 22" will print out the version string.
Having actually tested it here now, you're right, it is broken. A workaround is increasing MAX_STRING_LEN in options.h (or sysoptions.h in more recent versions) from 1400 to something larger - 10000 perhaps? I'll get a better fix in the next release. Cheers, Matt
