Friday 28 August 2015

How-to: Configure a pre-login warning message on a FortiGate

By default when you login to a FortiGate there is no warning message. This blog will go through howto enable the banner and edit the default message to help scare away those baddies.

Firstly enable the banner via the cli with the following:

config system global
set pre-login-banner enable
end


 Next up we can edit the default banner with our own warning.
  1. Goto System > Config >Replacement Message
  2. Select Extended View
  3. Select Pre-login Disclaimer Message
  4. Edit the default message with whatever you like
  5. Click Save


Once saved logout of the firewall and you should now see the disclaimer every time you reach the login prompt.

This is shown for both the webGUI:


And the CLI:

 

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