Public bug reported: [Impact]
* Users of containers may never see the MOTD of the container if they are always to the container's shell without PAM being involved. * MOTD contains important information about the system's health including the security updates to be installed thus it is desired to show MOTD in container shells, too. * The fix in update-motd is creating a snippet in /etc/profile.d which shows MOTD, but only if UPDATE_MOTD is not set, to avoid printing MOTD twice. [Test Case] * Log in to the system, where PAM prints the MOTD. * After seeing the MOTD observe MOTD_SHOWN set: $ echo $MOTD_SHOWN pam $ [Regression Potential] * The fix is simple thus i is unlikely to see any regression due to bad implementation. * The newly set environment variable may interact with existing software, but this variable seems to be not used: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=MOTD_SHOWN&literal=1 ** Affects: pam (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Balint Reczey (rbalint) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Balint Reczey (rbalint) ** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1855092 Title: [SRU] Please set MOTD_SHOWN=pam when MOTD was shown To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/1855092/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
