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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 01:38:36 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 01:38:36 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 1.3.1.upstream/1.3.1upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/modules/pam_motd/README b/modules/pam_motd/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c16938c --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/pam_motd/README @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +pam_motd — Display the motd file + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +DESCRIPTION + +pam_motd is a PAM module that can be used to display arbitrary motd (message of +the day) files after a successful login. By default the /etc/motd file is +shown. The message size is limited to 64KB. + +OPTIONS + +motd=/path/filename + + The /path/filename file is displayed as message of the day. + +motd_dir=/path/dirname.d + + The /path/dirname.d directory is scanned and each file contained inside of + it is displayed. + +When no options are given, the default is to display both /etc/motd and the +contents of /etc/motd.d. Specifying either option (or both) will disable this +default behavior. + +EXAMPLES + +The suggested usage for /etc/pam.d/login is: + +session optional pam_motd.so + + +To use a motd file from a different location: + +session optional pam_motd.so motd=/elsewhere/motd + + +To use a motd file from elsewhere, along with a corresponding .d directory: + +session optional pam_motd.so motd=/elsewhere/motd motd_dir=/elsewhere/motd.d + + +AUTHOR + +pam_motd was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>. + +The motd_dir= option was added by Allison Karlitskaya +<allison.karlitskaya@redhat.com>. + |