Re: New "official" motd

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From: Bill Dixon
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:20

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In article <jpe.723910551@ee.egr.duke.edu> jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
>While we're on this subject of the MOTD notice.  Will that actually do
>the job? What if your have .hushlogin files so they don't see the motd
>messages when they login?  What if the account an unauthorized user has
>compromised has a .hushlogin?  Wouldn't this present the intruder with
>a legal loophole, or would s/he have given up their right to notification?
>If the former, should we start removing .hushlogin files from our users'
>home directories or what?
>
>-John

Why not change the login herald so that the notice is displayed at each
login?  On AIX, the herald is in /etc/security/login.cfg, and can be
changed to anything you want (I don't know whether it's legal to
change/remove the copyright notice, though).

Wouldn't this suffice to present the notice to all users, legitimate or
otherwise?
-- 
Bill Dixon
bdixon@wap.oau.org

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From: bdixon@wap.oau.org (Bill Dixon)
Subject: Re: New "official" motd
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