From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 11 7:43:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA23F14E94; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 07:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11Pm2z-000EGI-00; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:14:25 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11Pm2x-000ASY-00; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:14:23 +0100 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:14:22 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: patmac@demon.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info Message-ID: <19990911131422.A40199@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199909111127.MAA00229@gti.noc.demon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199909111127.MAA00229@gti.noc.demon.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Patrick MacKeown wrote: > Please would somebody tell me how to prevent motd including the OS version > and the kernel name. On my 3.2 box editing the lines out of /etc/motd just > leads to them being replaced Set update_motd="NO" in rc.conf, and it will be left alone. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message