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From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alex <theawel@gmail.com>,
	Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login
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On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:

>
> I don't think that response helps anyone :-)
>
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> :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
> :
>

su -
cd /etc
mv motd motd.orig


Best regards,
Chris

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