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Bug 1663812 - document method to disable motd message
Summary: document method to disable motd message
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pam
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.2
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-07 07:18 UTC by Eko
Modified: 2024-06-13 22:06 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pam-1.3.1-8.el8
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:42:43 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker SSSD-7449 0 None None None 2024-06-13 22:06:28 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2020:1780 0 None None None 2020-04-28 16:43:05 UTC

Description Eko 2019-01-07 07:18:55 UTC 
The build is: RHEL-8.0-20181220.1, when login by ssh:

# ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
root.xxx.xxx's password: 
Activate the web console with: systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Last login: Mon Jan  7 14:52:39 2019 from 10.72.12.156


What's up with that? I've never seen this additional output before.
Comment 1 Martin Pitt 2019-01-07 09:02:21 UTC 
This happens on purpose, and explains how to either enable or access (depending on the state) the web console (aka Cockpit). It's a more dynamic variant of the static /etc/issue message that Fedora Server showed.
Comment 2 Eko 2019-01-08 05:29:16 UTC 
Sometimes, if I run some command line in the Terminal, this strange message still output and the command line will return non-zero status, even the cockpit.socket status is running.

Any workaround?  

# virsh  dominfo 7.4_Server_x86_64 | grep '^Name'
Activate the web console with: systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

# echo $?
254
Comment 3 Jeff Bastian 2019-04-15 16:07:33 UTC 
Re-opening since this breaks automation methods like 'expect' scripts.  If you do actually enable the socket, then the message changes to:

Web console: https://FQDN:9090/ or https://IP:9090/

There is also a Fedora equivalent bug 1635200 requesting to stop these messages.

Please provide a method to disable the messages.
Comment 4 Jeff Bastian 2019-04-15 16:14:18 UTC 
Removing (or commenting out) the pam_motd.so module from /etc/pam.d/sshd is one method to stop the messages, although it seems like a rather blunt tool.

One can also remove the /etc/issue.d/cockpit.issue and /etc/motd.d/cockpit symlinks, but this is temporary since they will return with the next update to cockpit-ws.
Comment 6 Richard W.M. Jones 2019-10-08 07:34:34 UTC 
One fix for this is:

sudo dnf remove cockpit-ws
Comment 9 Martin Pitt 2019-12-18 15:19:21 UTC 
The correct way to disable it is "ln -sfn /dev/null /etc/motd.d/cockpit", so that the next cockpit-ws package upgrade doesn't bring back the file.

This is already documented in pam_motd(8) in Fedora 31, in pam-1.3.1-18.fc31:

       To silence a message, a symbolic link with target /dev/null may be placed in /etc/motd.d with the same filename as the message to be silenced. Example:
       Creating a symbolic link as follows silences /usr/lib/motd.d/my_motd.

       ln -s /dev/null /etc/motd.d/my_motd

Unfortunately this part of the manpage is not yet in RHEL 8.2 (pam-1.3.1-5.el8). It should be, so I'm reassigning to PAM.
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:42:43 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1780
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