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Date:      Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:53:08 +0000
From:      Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
To:        "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        theawel@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, frank.altpeter@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login
Message-ID:  <20060209115308.559f50af.lists@yazzy.org>
In-Reply-To: <4730.1139485457@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <e367ea100602090316s3352395ibc8801604b06ddda@mail.gmail.com> <4730.1139485457@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:44:17 +0000
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> In message <e367ea100602090316s3352395ibc8801604b06ddda@mail.gmail.com>, Frank 
> Altpeter writes:
> >On 2/9/06, alex <theawel@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> this had absolutely no effect, what i am trying to remove is the line
> >> that has the FreeBSD info:
> >>
> >> [canceroftheweb:~] alex% ssh -l alex shake
> >> Last login: Thu Feb  9 04:09:18 2006 from 192.168.0.100
> >>
> >> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
> >>
> >> Welcome to Master Shake!
> >>
> >> 4:14AM  up  3:06, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >> [shake:~] alex%
> >>
> >>
> >> There has got to be an easy way to delete that line!
> >
> >Uhm... "rm /etc/motd" ?
> 
> Uhm, "uname -a"  ?
> 
> Uhm "echo __FreeBSD_cc_version | cpp -E" ?
> 
> Uhm "strings /bin/cat | grep -i freebsd" ?
> 
> Thinking that you can hide from a user what operating system he
> is running on, you are seriously deluded...

This can be useful in case you give users a custom, resticted shell, something like
vtysh of quagga.
Otherwise you're right, I don't see any point in hiding this from users.
Besides this thread is not really appropriate for the freebsd-current@ mailing list... 

Cheers,
Marcin



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