Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:23:40 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <duiker@haggis.nl> To: "'BSD Questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Customizing /etc/motd Message-ID: <015901c2d363$1fc01420$1500000a@scrk.com> In-Reply-To: <20030213141926.K82095-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org>
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+> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Colin J. Raven wrote: +>=20 +> > I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a=20 +> personalized login text. +>=20 +> 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=20 +> "FreeBSD .." +> as this line is replaced at boot time with the actual=20 +> 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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