From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 07:35:34 2003 Return-Path: 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 2C9EB16A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from megs19.100mwh.com (megs19.100mwh.com [209.151.94.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75BE743FDD for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rseals@vdsi.net) Received: from [204.193.75.20] (helo=[10.200.10.14]) by megs19.100mwh.com with asmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19yuRw-0001JQ-6h; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:35:32 -0600 From: Ray Seals To: Matthew Seaman 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> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1063636531.287.2.camel@rsealslaptop.magellanhealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 15 Sep 2003 09:35:31 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - megs19.100mwh.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - vdsi.net cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Securing the FreeBSD Console by removing OS Version X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:35:34 -0000 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