https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/enContents © 2022 <a href="mailto:bgstack15@gmail.com">bgstack15</a> <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"> <img alt="Creative Commons License BY-SA" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:12px;" src="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/.images/l_by-sa_4.0_88x31.png"></a>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:59:15 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2020/05/09/hide-debian-style-motd/bgstack15<p>If you use Debian-family systems in a networked environment and log in through ssh, you might see this message a lot:</p> <pre class="code literal-block"><span></span><code><span class="nv">Linux</span> <span class="nv">d2</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">03</span><span class="nv">a</span> <span class="mi">5</span>.<span class="mi">5</span>.<span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="nv">amd64</span> <span class="sc">#1</span> <span class="nv">SMP</span> <span class="nv">Debian</span> <span class="mi">5</span>.<span class="mi">5</span>.<span class="mi">17</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="ss">(</span><span class="mi">2020</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">04</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">15</span><span class="ss">)</span> <span class="nv">x86_64</span> <span class="nv">The</span> <span class="nv">programs</span> <span class="nv">included</span> <span class="nv">with</span> <span class="nv">the</span> <span class="nv">Devuan</span> <span class="nv">GNU</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">Linux</span> <span class="nv">system</span> <span class="nv">are</span> <span class="nv">free</span> <span class="nv">software</span><span class="c1">;</span> <span class="nv">the</span> <span class="nv">exact</span> <span class="nv">distribution</span> <span class="nv">terms</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="nv">each</span> <span class="nv">program</span> <span class="nv">are</span> <span class="nv">described</span> <span class="nv">in</span> <span class="nv">the</span> <span class="nv">individual</span> <span class="nv">files</span> <span class="nv">in</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">usr</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">share</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nv">doc</span><span class="cm">/*/copyright.</span> <span class="cm">Devuan GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent</span> <span class="cm">permitted by applicable law.</span> <span class="cm">Last login: Wed May 6 19:12:04 2020 from 192.168.1.19</span> </code></pre> <p>I finally decided to do something about this message that I see every time. Find any lines in /etc/pam.d/sshd that are uncommented and that call pam_motd.so, and comment the line out.</p> <pre class="code literal-block"><span></span><code>sudo sed -i -r -e '/pam_motd.so/{/^#/!{s/^/#/;};}' /etc/pam.d/sshd </code></pre>devuanmotdonelinerhttps://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2020/05/09/hide-debian-style-motd/Sat, 09 May 2020 13:25:45 GMT