On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and
> Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two
> things I'd like to change.
>
> 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after
> typing in my name and password. I read through /etc/login.defs and
> there was a reference to a file that I thought this message was coming
> from, but the file didn't exist.
# Edit /etc/login.defs to enable HUSHLOGIN
# change to your home directory
bash$ cd
# create the 'hushlogin' file, which suppresses the motd
bash$ touch .hushlogin
Also, did you see this in your /etc/login.defs?
OBSOLETED BY PAM ##############
# #
# These options are now handled by PAM. Please #
# edit the appropriate file in /etc/pam.d/ to #
# enable the equivelants of them.
#
###############
#MOTD_FILE
This means that you must go into /etc/pam.d and change the options for
'login'.
There is a PAM Administrators Guide that you can download.
libpam-doc - Documentation of PAM
Good luck.
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Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
http://www.wookimus.net/
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