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- From: grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Greg Lehmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Strange MOTD
- Message-ID: <grl.722071113@groucho>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 07:18:33 GMT
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- toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Rory Toma) writes:
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- > In article 721484101@iiasa, joerg@iiasa.ac.at (Joerg MESSER) writes:
- > > I recently found the following strangeness in the /etc/motd
- > >file on one of our machines. Does anyone know it all means?
- > > [contents of motd deleted]
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- > Perhaps, on a related note: has anyone noticed that /etc/rc.local does
- > a 'chmod 666 /etc/motd'? Nice move, Sun. I definitely want joe_random_user
- > to write funny little login messages on motd....
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- > - Steve Johnson, Systems Manager, Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
- > Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu
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- >Perhaps deleting this, and doing a chmod 400 on /etc/motd would keep
- >/etc/mtab out?
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- It doesn't keep /etc/mtab out but it does keep others out, which is the way
- I like it.
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