[Novalug] where is the login message?

[Pete Nuwayser]

gdmconfig is your friend

Or maybe it's gdmsetup?

Pete



Pete Nuwayser
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Little <winzig at comcast.net>

Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:16:18 
To:northern virginia linux user group mailing list <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
Subject: Re: [Novalug] where is the login message?


They are using a local graphical login so they need to edit the 
kdm.conf, xdm.conf  or gdm.conf I believe.

Michael Gurski wrote:
> Excerpts from ali.darab's message of Mon Dec 10 17:02:59 -0500 2007:
>   
>> Are his users logging in via the console or SSH?  I just looked at a Fedora
>> 7 system and a warning can be specified *during* SSH login with the "Banner"
>> option within /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
>>
>> # no default banner path
>> Banner /some/path/to/warning/message
>>     
>
> Incidentally, this is a *much* better solution for ssh than using the
> tcpwrappers approach to send a banner.  While openssh as a client
> didn't seem to have problems igoring the banner (and i do mean ignore
> it completely), certain apps like nagios kept reporting that ssh was
> down on a host at $WORK that had a banner set up in tcpwrappers.
> Switching to the above not only solved the nagios problem, but also
> actually displayed the banner in ssh/scp clients, like it was intended
> to do from the start.
>
>   
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