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Sysadmins - What's in Your MOTD?
permaculture asks: "This is a 'knowledge management' issue, on a University network. For many years we've had a network 'Message of the Day' that appears when any network user logs in. MOTD lists planned service outages for maintenance, progress on current issues, upcoming holidays, and other items that affect network users. Recently, this has been replaced by a page that announces general University business such as Open weeks, upcoming awards etc. There's a link on the page to the network MOTD that used to greet every user immediately after login. Does your network have a 'Message of the Day' that appears at login? Is it a Corporate business page, entirely related to network services, or something else entirely?"
I was just thinking of upgrading mine. It currently reads:
Trolling is a art,
[ben@bees ~]$ ls -l /etc/motd /etc/motd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 Jul 28 2000
Events on calendar are closer than they appear.
The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done shall not interrupt the one who is doing it.
It's a bit scary, but just this day our MOTD got changed to "We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.". :-/
Swedish plasma phys. PhD student; MSc EE; knows maths, programming, electronics; finance interest; seeks opportunities
DoublePlusBSD 0.0.0 (BIGBROTHER) #1: Wed Feb 29 04:20:00 GMT 1984
not entirely working in your best interests
-- since 1984 --
Access to and use of this server is restricted to those
activities expressly permitted by the system administion
staff. If you're not sure if it's allowed, DON'T DO IT.
This flies in the face of science.
>cat /etc/motd
Benden Weyr: Now with 200% more Space Elf-related program activity!
Rule #1: Do not speak about dienub
Rule #2: Do not speak about dienub
Rule #3: Whatever it was in that cool movie
Rule #4: If I dislike your behaviour on this server, I will purge your
account, and publish your entire home directory in a public IRC
channel.
This includes, nonexclusively, sending global messages, using retarded
exploits (Both against this and other servers), ban evasion, etc.
Too many faulty login attempts will get you banned by DenyHosts. Generate a
fucking keypair and use it for authentication. Passwords are insecure.
Sincerely,
Your friendly BOFH.
Boss's work Credit Card info -- Doubles as an IDS /. headline /var/log/squid/access.log | tail -n 5
Company gossip
Ascii porn
random line from salaries.xls
latest
grep $bossip
Dude, I am reporting your Slashdot ID to DISA since you obviously hacked my server and stole my MOTD.
<disclaimer>I am a DOD sysadmin</disclaimer>
"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live." - Mark Twain, "Taming the Bicycle"
Of course, once he found out who did it, he changed my the folder on my user account from /usr/~john to /dev/floppy until I went begging his forgiveness. I didn't do it again.
John
His parent's basement. He's got split-personality syndrom.
at my last job, i allowed consultants to fuck with each other if they left their machines open for abuse (i.e. leave a root window open or an administrator account unlocked on their computer). one consultant set his root password to abc123, another consultant found out and started abusing his machine. the hacked consultant came crying to me for justice and i threatened to fire him if he didn't find and fix his security flaws. since then he has become a bit more security-minded.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
This was what mine was before I upgraded:
Dis beez my box.
It don' be real fast.
But if you fuck wit it,
I be kickin' yo ass.
-- Management