On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > > >> I checked further and older ubuntu releases used to use update-motd but >> they've now modified pam_motd to invoke the scripts in >> /etc/update-motd.d on login instead. I checked my RHEL7rc VM and those >> modifications are not present there. > > this is just a super complex solution to a problem that is far simpler > than it seems. > > if a yum-plugin is able to drop the number somewhere, an echo in .skel > would be all the 'UI' we need, and if its there for the default user on > instance bringup, the skel should get copied over ( and then the user > can do whatever they please ) to all new users as well. > > would that be all we need here ? Minor warning: if you are using backuppc to back up a host with rsync over ssh, it will fail if there is any output before the rsync startup. Native rsync will ignore it, but not the backuppc server's rsync-in-perl implementation. So, randomly adding messages at login may have side effects. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com