Comments on: Change SSH Welcome Banner on Ubuntu

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:24:34 +0000

If your banner keeps resetting itself, you need to keep in mind that /etc/motd is only a link to the /var/run/motd file. Edit that file to make the banner changes permanent.

To remove the “Last login” message, edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to change where it says:
PrintLastLog yes
to no, and you’re good to go.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:54 +0000

Along the same lines you can uncomment the Banner /etc/issue.net line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Then put your message in /etc/issue.net and it’ll be displayed before you put in your password.

By: Benny

Benny — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:45:20 +0000

can i remove the “Last login: message?

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:41:32 +0000

If you are using Ubuntu, try editing /etc/motd.tail
That will do the trick.

By: Kamahl

Kamahl — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:23:57 +0000

My motd keeps resetting itself… I believe it might be the updates. Is there any way of locking the file after I’ve edited it?

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:05:24 +0000

Nice HowTo and I agree: Linux rocks.

But if you want to avoid /etc/motd to be overwritten with the old version upon reboot you also have to edit /etc/default/rcS.

Look for

# Set EDITMOTD to “no�? if you don’t want /etc/motd to be regenerated
# automatically
EDITMOTD=yes

and change “yes” to “no” before editing /etc/motd

Cheers
Sebastian