[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login
Pat Riehecky
riehecky at fnal.govThu Jun 12 20:36:32 UTC 2014
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On 06/12/2014 03:25 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 06/12/2014 09:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> 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. >> > does it fail, with enough context to figure out what happened ? if so, > we then just need to make it easy to turn off. > > Similarly, putting the content in /etc/motd may have issues. A few remote connection protocols offer up /etc/motd before users authenticate. Sending out to anonymous users "You've got 300 un-applied updates" might be bad. Pat -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/
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