From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 08:55:21 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 4608E16A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:55:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E9243F75 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:55:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mail23@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8FFtlXR008412; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:55:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail23@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8FFtlda008411; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:55:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: ei.bzerk.org: bulk set sender to mail23@bzerk.org using -f Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:55:47 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Ray Seals Message-ID: <20030915155547.GA8281@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Ray Seals , Matthew Seaman , FreeBSD Questions References: <1063399454.293.5.camel@rsealslaptop.magellanhealth.com> <20030912223142.GC68304@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <1063636531.287.2.camel@rsealslaptop.magellanhealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1063636531.287.2.camel@rsealslaptop.magellanhealth.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 Reply-To: Ruben de Groot List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:55:21 -0000 [edited because of top-posting] On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:35:31AM -0500, Ray Seals typed: > 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 > > 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. There really is no point in hiding the OS version *after* a user has logged in. There are numerous ways for any unpriviliged user to determine which version you are running. An intruder entering your system through some exploit will almost certainly allready know which version even before logging in. Ruben > Thanks > Ray > > -- > Ray Seals > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"