From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 19:15:34 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 1EFEC16A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:15:34 +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 BA67843D55 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:15:33 +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 2B7D31A3C1B; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:15:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 56CC1512D9; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:15:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:15:30 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Andrew R. Reiter" Message-ID: <20060209191529.GA9088@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060209081032.GA72288@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060209115531.F74364@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060209115531.F74364@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alex , Kris Kennaway 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 19:15:34 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:55:54AM -0500, Andrew R. Reiter wrote: >=20 > I don't think that response helps anyone :-) Well, if it's because of a sense that removing the message will improve his system security (sometimes people ask the question for this reason), then I think it would be useful to discuss that idea with him. Kris >=20 > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > :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 remo= ve 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=3D"NO" to rc.conf and rebooted and that did nothing, it st= ill > :> showed up. I even went so far as to comment out the copyright statemen= t 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=3D"YES" to no= and > :> rebooted and still it kept showing up. I am at wits end here..... anyo= ne > :> 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 > : >=20 > -- > arr@watson.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD65TRWry0BWjoQKURAjqxAJ9lqTjlwzJDRBzN9bSx6OjDgVevxgCfbHGY nY/Vw7oG/ijtUhRh3EyY5iM= =SmGU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--