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Bug 1475338

Summary: [RFE] customisable MOTD on login / banner in Web UI
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: German Parente <gparente>
Component: ipaAssignee: Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: ipa-qe <ipa-qe>
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Version: ---CC: afarley, pasik, pcech, pvoborni, rcritten, suwu, tscherf
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Description German Parente 2017-07-26 13:11:26 UTC
Description of problem:

this bug is just to track:

https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/6732
 [RFE] customisable MOTD on login / banner in Web UI

in RHEL7 since it has required by a customer.

Comment 2 Petr Vobornik 2017-08-04 22:14:25 UTC
Upstream ticket:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/6732

Comment 4 Petr Vobornik 2019-02-07 09:10:53 UTC
I wonder what capabilities should the message of the day have? 

Should it be only one sentence? Or should it support links? Does it need to support getting the source from another place?

There is a lot of ways how to implement it. 

If somebody wants to have this capability with currently released IPA servers, then a Web UI plugin could be the way. In principle, MOTD is almost the same as the instruction box which FreeIPA public demo uses:
* public demo: https://ipa.demo1.freeipa.org/ipa/ui/
* plugin which implements it https://pvoborni.fedorapeople.org/plugins/demo/demo.js

Using a plugin has, of course, some disadvantages:
* it practically injects code in Web UI, so it can also break it if not done well, which might have some support implications
* must be deployed on all servers when the message should be seen

Advantage:
* is very flexible. E.g. it can get the MOTD from another source. It can display more complex text. Something like it would probably not be implemented in IPA server itself as it is highly dependent a needs of a company which runs IPA.

Comment 5 Amy Farley 2019-08-16 18:31:01 UTC
Moving this to RHEL 8,

Comment 6 Petr Čech 2020-07-09 12:49:56 UTC
Thank you taking your time and submitting this request for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It was unfortunately not given priority Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Given that this request is not planned for a close release, it is highly unlikely it will be fixed in this major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We are therefore closing the request as WONTFIX.
To request that Red Hat reconsiders the decision, please reopen the Bugzilla with the help of Red Hat Customer Service and provide additional business and/or technical details about it's importance to you.