Re: Customizing /etc/motd
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 05:31:08AM -0800, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: > Colin J. Raven disturbed my sleep to write: > > Greetings all! > > I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a personalized login text. > > Printing the last time the user logged in appears to be part of login(1) > itself, not /etc/motd. I suppose you could always modify the source > code to print the message you like, but an easier way would be to append > something to /etc/profile: > > echo 'Welcome to FreeBSD, $USER!' > > $USER is the user's account name. And it looks like you need the single > quotes there to get the exclamation point to work. > You could go one step further in user friendliness (sic) .. put the person's nickname in the GECOS field of the password file, find out the time of day and when your boss logins at 8:30 a.m. it could say "Good Morning lame-brain loser. What's the matter ? Couldn't sleep last night ?" "Or were you too busy moon-howling ?" :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Customizing /etc/motd
Colin J. Raven disturbed my sleep to write: > Greetings all! > I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a personalized login text. Printing the last time the user logged in appears to be part of login(1) itself, not /etc/motd. I suppose you could always modify the source code to print the message you like, but an easier way would be to append something to /etc/profile: echo 'Welcome to FreeBSD, $USER!' $USER is the user's account name. And it looks like you need the single quotes there to get the exclamation point to work. Hope this helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
RE: Customizing /etc/motd
For per user - you may do perhaps someting with /etc/csh.login (assuming they are using csh). Like adding a check for a file and cating that. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
RE: Customizing /etc/motd
+> motd is a flat file, so it won't take the customizations +> you'd need to do this :) Yes indeed, I was aware of this - hence my puzzlement as to how this might be done. +> The last login is done by lastlog, which is called by login, +> not from motd. H +> For infor on both, check the motd(5) and utmp(5) man pages. AHA!!! Until now, I didn't realize motd had a man page. Thanks much for the info. After reading, I'm no wiser tho'...unless you count the knowledge that the man page exists which was previously unknown to me!! :-) Regards, -Colin Who is still grapping with this issue with "grim resolve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Customizing /etc/motd
"Last Login" is not handled by "motd file"
It's done by sshd.
in sshd_config
"PrintLastLog yes"
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:02:44 +0100
"Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings all!
> I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a personalized login text.
>
> Perhaps something like;
>
> FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sun Feb 9 19:32:05 CET 2003 (This already exists
> of course)
>
> {username}, Welcome to FreeBSD!
> Blah Blah Blah
>
> I notice that "last login" is the first line in this file,
>
> Last login: Thu Feb 13 13:55:22 2003 from 131gorio.dsl.provider-name
>
> yet examining the file itself doesn't show how this is achieved (if it
> did, then I would play with it and try extending the functionality)
>
>
> Can anyone suggest how the above could be accomplished?
> I'm no shellscripting guru, so it needs to be *reasonably* simple :-)
>
> Regards & TIA,
> -Colin
>
>
>
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RE: Customizing /etc/motd
+> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Colin J. Raven wrote: +> +> > I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a +> personalized login text. +> +> su root +> ..type root password +> vi /etc/motd Yes! :-)I know how to edit the file, but I'm trying to figure out how to personalize it on a per-user login basis. +> One normally does not edit/change the first line with +> "FreeBSD .." +> as this line is replaced at boot time with the actual +> version number. If +> you remove this line; then that will not happen. AH, interesting. Good info thanks. Luckily I didn't have any intention of removing it, but nevertheless didn't know that Bad Things(tm) would happen if I did. Regards, -Colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Customizing /etc/motd
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Colin J. Raven wrote: > I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a personalized login text. su root ..type root password vi /etc/motd or, if you do not know the vi editor, use su root ..type root password ee /etc/motd Done. One normally does not edit/change the first line with "FreeBSD .." as this line is replaced at boot time with the actual version number. If you remove this line; then that will not happen. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
