reassign 919271 openssh-server thanks On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:47:03PM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 10.1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > Since we've started having dynamic generation of the system MOTD, > re-displaying it is hard. Especially if people are using SSH connection > sharing.
I have some buster machines at work and the motd is displayed when I ssh into them. Did this problem you mention start to happen recently? Also, you will not want the motd to be shown on ordinary ssh commands, will you? ssh remote-machine ls > list-of-files.txt (I assume this is not what you want). > How about a /bin/motd (or /usr/bin) command which runs the following: > > run-parts /etc/update-motd.d; cat /etc/motd Hmm, no, no binaries in the base-files package, please. This is already supposed to be handled by some PAM setting at /etc/pam.d. See this bug for some details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859124 (This is the bug which asked me to introduce 10-uname as a sane default to recover the old behaviour). > I've filed this bug report against base-files as this package delivers > /etc/update-motd.d/10-uname. This is just a hook so that other parts of the system do something with it, it does not mean that base-files takes care of the run-parts thing. > Incidentally, the description for base-files says that it delivers > /etc/motd, which it doesn't anymore. It is still true that base-files contains the "master" default i.e. "The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software. etc" but everything else is handled in other packages. I'm going to assume that your main problem is that you would like to see /etc/motd in ssh sessions. So I'm reassigning this to openssh-server. The bug may still not be there but I think it's closer. Thanks.
