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On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing |
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> at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. |
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> So now it has the line |
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> MOTD_FILE /etc/motd |
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> for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, |
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> I get |
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> configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator), and |
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> something |
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> similar if I attempt to use /etc/issue. |
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> Looking at /bin/login with strings(1), I find a format string that would |
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> produce this output. |
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> Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and the |
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> greeting? |
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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 like |
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telnet and rlogin, never for console login. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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