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Not really. Most services have "signatures", as do OS's. If you can't 
determine it blatantly, there's always response patterns. (See 
"security through obscurity").

>  Why advertise it so
> blatantly?

Partly so the program can login properly (use proper ssh versions). As 
far as reporting the OS, *shrug*.

> Is there any way turn this banner off?

Haven't seen this one in a config file (there is a Banner keyword, but 
it's different), but it should be easy enough to edit the source to 
limit it down. Change it and post a diff to the openssh team, with an 
explanation, I guess...

-Bop


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