[2017-03-30 17:47] Faidon Liambotis <parav...@debian.org> > Two years later, the situation has changed a bit. Most of the fixes in > the other packages are in. PAM was fixed to generate its contents under > /run/motd.dynamic (#743286), login dropped its pam_exec call in favor of > pam_motd (since 1:4.4-3) that Josh mentioned above, mimicking what SSH > has been doing (and what Ubuntu has been doing for a long time). > > There is really no point in shipping /etc/init.d/motd anymore. It > currently just runs "uname -snrvm > /var/run/motd.dynamic" but this is > being regenerated by both login and sshd via pam_motd anyway on every > login, so it's completely useless right now.
Seems it is true; both fgetty and dropbear use only /etc/motd, they will not be affected. > [... something about system ...] What do you think, dear co-maintainers?