From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 5:25:55 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 8648437B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:25:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694A743F93 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:25:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from duiker@haggis.nl) Received: from zeus by smtp.hccnet.nl via fia148-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.148] with ESMTP for id h1DDPmqP018952 (8.12.5/2.00); Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:25:51 +0100 (MET) From: "Colin J. Raven" To: "'BSD Questions'" Subject: RE: Customizing /etc/motd Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:23:40 +0100 Message-ID: <015901c2d363$1fc01420$1500000a@scrk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <20030213141926.K82095-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 +> 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