From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 18:41:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A2A37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:41:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3649843E4A for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:41:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <20030110024121052002o69pe>; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 02:41:21 +0000 Message-ID: <3E1E32D0.50007@mac.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 18:41:20 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motd Updating References: <001401c2b915$54172550$2d01a8c0@apollo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message