Hi, Two years later, the situation has changed a bit. Most of the fixes in the other packages are in. PAM was fixed to generate its contents under /run/motd.dynamic (#743286), login dropped its pam_exec call in favor of pam_motd (since 1:4.4-3) that Josh mentioned above, mimicking what SSH has been doing (and what Ubuntu has been doing for a long time).
There is really no point in shipping /etc/init.d/motd anymore. It currently just runs "uname -snrvm > /var/run/motd.dynamic" but this is being regenerated by both login and sshd via pam_motd anyway on every login, so it's completely useless right now. It's also being masked by default by systemd: $ ls -l /lib/systemd/system/motd.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 2 10:21 /lib/systemd/system/motd.service -> /dev/null So in the majority of systems, it's not even being invoked anymore, and hasn't been since at least jessie. TL;DR: please drop /etc/init.d/motd from initscripts, it's an entirely redudant file these days. Thanks, Faidon _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
