don't escape the banner output http://bugs.gentoo.org/244222 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1533 fix by Michał Górny --- sshconnect2.c +++ sshconnect2.c @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ input_userauth_banner(int type, u_int32_t seq, void *ctxt) if (len > 65536) len = 65536; msg = xmalloc(len * 4 + 1); /* max expansion from strnvis() */ - strnvis(msg, raw, len * 4 + 1, VIS_SAFE|VIS_OCTAL); + strnvis(msg, raw, len * 4 + 1, VIS_SAFE|VIS_OCTAL|VIS_NOSLASH); fprintf(stderr, "%s", msg); xfree(msg); }