Date: 15 Sep 2003 09:35:31 -0500 From: Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Securing the FreeBSD Console by removing OS Version Message-ID: <1063636531.287.2.camel@rsealslaptop.magellanhealth.com> In-Reply-To: <20030912223142.GC68304@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1063399454.293.5.camel@rsealslaptop.magellanhealth.com> <20030912223142.GC68304@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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It was the /etc/motd file. I had already edited the file but failed to take out the top line. I was trying to make this harder than it really was. Thanks Ray On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:31, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:44:14PM -0500, Ray Seals wrote: > > I don't want the console to display the OS version number. I have > > removed the %h variable from gettytab for my remote login users. Where > > can I remove this info from the Console screen? > > Edit /etc/motd ? > > If you've got an /etc/issue file (or whatever the if property in > gettytab(5) is set to), that will be displayed before the login > prompt, and it gets the same sort of % expansion as done for the im > (initial banner message) or lm (login prompt) properties. See also > /etc/login.conf where the 'welcome' property can be changes to point > to a different file than /etc/motd > > Cheers, > > Matthew -- Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net>
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