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Date:      Thu, 09 Jan 2003 18:41:20 -0800
From:      paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
To:        Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers <craigrm@coreixsystems.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Motd Updating
Message-ID:  <3E1E32D0.50007@mac.com>
References:  <001401c2b915$54172550$2d01a8c0@apollo>

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Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers wrote:

> i want to add company specific support data to the source so it can be
> updated to motd on a daily basis, but do not want
> it to be easily accessiably be sysadmins.
> i have done it through a /etc/perodic/daily/script file, but clients can
> find it i want to complile it in the source.

Sorry, I missed the bit about it not being accessbile by 
sysadmins. Though I have to wonder what you can keep a determined 
sysadmin out of, if they really want to mess with something.

Sounds more like something you could achieve with permissions 
and/or something that checksums what's in MOTD versus what should be.

-- 
Paul Beard
<http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>;
8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400

Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on
society.
		-- Mark Twain


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