On 06/12/2014 09:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@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.
does it fail, with enough context to figure out what happened ? if so, we then just need to make it easy to turn off.