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Re: motd handling in jessie & beyond



One should perhaps add:

On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 16:20 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: 
> - Behavior is different between login & sshd. login has (#741129):
>   session optional pam_exec.so type=open_session stdout /bin/uname -snrvm
>   session optional pam_motd.so
> 
>   but SSH has:
>   session optional pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic
>   session optional pam_motd.so noupdate

For the OpenSSH server this is dependent on wheter UseLogin and/or
UsePAM directives are being used or not, the later which has a
configuration file default of "yes" in Debian (but not in upstream's
default config or default value).

In addition the server has the PrintMotd directive, which basically just
prints the file /etc/motd, and which has a configuration file default of
"no" in Debian (due to UsePAM defaulting to "yes").


Cheers,
Chris.

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