From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 08:10:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CF716A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:10:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130FC43D45 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:10:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 499621A3C1B; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 00:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 07A0E51432; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 03:10:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 03:10:32 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alex Message-ID: <20060209081032.GA72288@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:10:38 -0000 --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:29:25AM -0500, Alex wrote: > I just installed a fresh copy of freebsd 6.0. I went on to try to remove the > version number that appears before your MOTD and I had no luck. I first > tried making a COPYRIGHT file in /etc(with touch COPYRIGHT) and adding > update_motd="NO" to rc.conf and rebooted and that did nothing, it still > showed up. I even went so far as to comment out the copyright statement in > login.conf and rebuilt the DB but it still showed up. I also went to > /etc/default/rc.conf and changed the default update_motd="YES" to no and > rebooted and still it kept showing up. I am at wits end here..... anyone > have any ideas? Am I missing something here? IMO, the real question is "why are you trying to hide it"..that information is available in lots of ways. Kris --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD6vj4Wry0BWjoQKURAtQzAKD7gOVN8mlomn9NKTL4vo1S/JtJpgCfRPb3 JTP7BD1u31GN18fs0Ry6WGY= =2Fpm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--