[cisco-voip] OT: best banners

Tim Frazee tfrazee at gmail.com
Tue Jun 8 13:56:23 EDT 2010


That would be true if I was talking about the login banner, which mine are
pretty thin.

I'm not asking for advice on when/where to use a banner. Just looking from
some cool samples.



On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Go0se <me at go0se.com> wrote:

>  The following statement is from Cisco's "Guide to Harden Cisco IOS
> Devices" documentation (see the section on "warning banners"):
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> "From a security point of view, rather than legal, a login banner should
> not contain any specific information about the router name, model, software,
> or ownership. This information can be abused by malicious users."
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> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk361/technologies_tech_note09186a0080120f48.shtml
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> Thanks,
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> Go0se
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Tim Frazee
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 08, 2010 11:43 AM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* [cisco-voip] OT: best banners
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> What does everyone's favorite banner(s) to put on Cisco IOS devices look
> like?
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> Something fancy?
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> Something with lots of information?
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> Best legal disclaimer?
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> I'll start,
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> banner exec %
> ************************************************************
>                       |             |
>                      |||           |||
>                     |||||         |||||
>              .....:|||||||:.....:|||||||:.....
>                   C i s c o S y s t e m s
> ************************************************************
> Site Name       =      <location name>
> Location        =      <city, state>
> Device Name     =      <hostname>
> IOS Version     =      <ios file>
> Router Type     =      <hardware type>
> Installed By    =      <installing engineer>
> ***********************************************************
> %
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