/etc/motd, /etc/issue and X terminals

cantao · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 166

Hi Friends!

I wan't to put the contents of /etc/motd (or /etc/issue) every time a user opens a new X terminal (xterm, konsole, urxvt, Eterm, whatever), or login via SSH.

Messages on these files only show up only when logging through console.

Is there any clean and easy way to do that?

Thanks a lot, Cantão!

Dizzutch · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject:

add a line to their .bashrc to read /etc/motd
-Dizz
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cantao · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 166

Hum... That's exactly the alternative I'm trying to avoid.

Thanks a lot, Cantão!

grimm26 · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject:

For logins via ssh, you can set the Banner in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to poitn to the /etc/motd or whatever you like.
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cantao · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 166

Wow, cool man! That solves 50% of my problem :-D

Thanks a lot, Cantão!