motd update

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sun Dec 14 10:42:39 PST 2003


:Erik Paulsen Skaalerud wrote:
:> I don't see why the uname output should be in motd. Every sysadmin out there
:> knows how to use uname if they want to see what OS/version its running.
:
:I've wondered about this myself.  I've thought it to be a small security 
:risk -- basically, advertising which vulnerabilities this system is 
:(likely) to be susceptible to.

    motd is only printed out when you are about to get a shell prompt,
    at which point you can type 'uname'.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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