freebsd-dev/contrib/libpam/doc/modules/pam_motd.sgml
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<sect1>Output the motd file
<sect2>Synopsis
<p>
<descrip>
<tag><bf>Module Name:</bf></tag>
<tt/pam_motd/
<tag><bf>Author:</bf></tag>
Ben Collins &lt;bcollins@debian.org&gt;
<tag><bf>Maintainer:</bf></tag>
Author
<tag><bf>Management groups provided:</bf></tag>
Session (open)
<tag><bf>Cryptographically sensitive:</bf></tag>
<tag><bf>Security rating:</bf></tag>
<tag><bf>Clean code base:</bf></tag>
<tag><bf>System dependencies:</bf></tag>
<tag><bf>Network aware:</bf></tag>
</descrip>
<sect2>Overview of module
<p>
This module outputs the motd file (<em>/etc/motd</em> by default) upon
successful login.
<sect2>Session component
<p>
<descrip>
<tag><bf>Recognized arguments:</bf></tag>
<tt/debug/; <tt/motd=motd-file-name/;
<tag><bf>Description:</bf></tag>
This module allows you to have arbitrary motd's (message of the day)
output after a succesful login. By default this file is <em>/etc/motd</em>,
but is configurable to any file.
<p>
The behavior of this module can be modified with one of the following
flags:
<p>
<itemize>
<item><tt/motd/
- the file to output if not using the default.
</itemize>
<tag><bf>Examples/suggested usage:</bf></tag>
login session pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd
</descrip>
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