Dr Andrew Scott
G7VAV
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications
D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
School of Computing
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D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
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PAM_MOTD
Section: Linux-PAM Manual (8)Updated: 10/30/2011
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NAME
pam_motd - Display the motd fileSYNOPSIS
- pam_motd.so [motd=/path/filename]
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
motd=/path/filename
- The /path/filename file is displayed as message of the day.
noupdate
- Don't run the scripts in /etc/update-motd.d to refresh the motd file.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
Only the session module type is provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_IGNORE
- This is the only return value of this module.
EXAMPLES
The suggested usage for /etc/pam.d/login is:
-
session optional pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd
SEE ALSO
motd(5), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7), update-motd(5)
AUTHOR
pam_motd was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>.
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