topic Re: Message of the day in Operating System - HP-UX

Message of the day

vaman — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:41:24 GMT

On hpux 11.0, how can I give message when a user logs in first time, & if I need to restrict to a perticular group a perticular message, how can I do that

Re: Message of the day

Mark Greene_1 — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:44:48 GMT

You can edit the file /etc/motd with whatever you want. Legal disclaimers are a popular choice here, as this is displayed to all logins.

To restrict by group, you could edit the /etc/profile to print a message on certain conditions, such as a login IDs group affiliation (man groups for more info).

mark

Re: Message of the day

Franky_1 — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:46:04 GMT

Hi,

you can use the news command which displays contents of files under /var/news upon login
Read man news for more info

Regards

Franky

Re: Message of the day

Simon Hargrave — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:51:06 GMT

The default profile displays the contents of /etc/motd for this very purpose. Put your contents in this file.

The part in /etc/profile that calls it looks like this: -

# Message of the day

if [ -r /etc/motd ]
then
cat /etc/motd
fi

To restrict it to a certain group, eg GID 110, you could modify this to

# Message of the day

if [ -r /etc/motd -a $(id -g) -eq 110 ]
then
cat /etc/motd
fi

If you wanted different messages for different groups, you could have: -

# Message of the day

gid=$(id -g)

if [ -r /etc/motd.$gid ]
then
cat /etc/motd.$gid
fi

Then have /etc/motd.100 , /etc/motd.110 etc.

Re: Message of the day

vaman — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:27:47 GMT

I do not have /etc/motd still I get some message every time I login, it is not from/etc/profile or.profile.
The messages are like last successful login, last unsuccessful login & some notice,
Can i know where it is comming from?

Re: Message of the day

Simon Hargrave — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:32:26 GMT

The last successful login messages etc are generated by the "login" process upon successful authentication, before the profiles are executed.

Not sure what you mean by "notice"? Perhaps you mean a banner displayed before the login: prompt? If so then check /etc/inetd.conf for the telnet service. It may have -b /etc/issue which means it displays the contents of that file before login.

Re: Message of the day

vaman — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:46:19 GMT

Hello Simon,

Yes I mean banners, last login info displayed before I get prompt, but it is not from /etc/issue as I checked the contents of that file,
Also I am not using telnet but ssh

Re: Message of the day

vaman — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:19:07 GMT

IF I am using SSH to connect hpux system, what is the file that will give me banner before shell prompt

Re: Message of the day

Mark Greene_1 — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:26:22 GMT

sshd will display /etc/motd, unless disabled in the config file /etc/sshd.config or $HOME/.ssh/config. Alternate files may be specified in $HOME/.ssh/environment, $HOME/.ssh/rc or other files in that directory path, depending on your ssh implementation.

mark

Re: Message of the day

Cheryl Griffin — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:32:34 GMT

You might be looking for /etc/issue except /etc/issue will not display a message to users whom telnet into the machine.