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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:31:08 -0800
From:      Saint Aardvark the Carpeted <aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
To:        "Colin J. Raven" <duiker@haggis.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Customizing /etc/motd
Message-ID:  <20030213133108.GG14390@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
In-Reply-To: <015401c2d360$3339c3a0$1500000a@scrk.com>
References:  <015401c2d360$3339c3a0$1500000a@scrk.com>

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Colin J. Raven disturbed my sleep to write:
> Greetings all!
> I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a personalized login text.

Printing the last time the user logged in appears to be part of login(1)
itself, not /etc/motd.  I suppose you could always modify the source
code to print the message you like, but an easier way would be to append
something to /etc/profile:

echo 'Welcome to FreeBSD, $USER!'

$USER is the user's account name.  And it looks like you need the single
quotes there to get the exclamation point to work.

Hope this helps,
Hugh
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Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
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Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.

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