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On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:10:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: |
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[gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....: |
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>On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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[snip] |
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>> Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and |
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>> the greeting? |
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If you are using PAM for authentication of logins, there is a motd |
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parameter in /etc/pam.d/login. Its default value is /etc/motd. |
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>Is this a console login or via ssh? |
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>Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? |
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>/etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff |
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>like telnet and rlogin, never for console login. |
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I thought /etc/issue was for the *getty programs to emit a pre-login |
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greeting/warning/whatever, and was unrelated to login. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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