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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 Recently, this has been replaced by a page that announces general University business such as Open weeks, upcoming awards etc.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?"
You do know that is what the /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net files are for don't you? You can even have them referenced in ssh connections as well if you modify your pam config files.
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
The system that I use simply gave me a wonderful little notice saying that unauthorized users are, well, unauthorized, and that they reserve the right to monitor activities.
:)
A special significance of this might be that it's from a university system, like the one in question by the... er, Asker. It's a research ssh account from a University of California system. So, there's at least one response from another university
- dshaw