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| author | Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> | 2019-12-04 18:12:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Tomáš Mráz <t8m@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-12-04 18:12:49 +0100 |
| commit | c81280b16e1831ab0bdd0383486c7e2d1eaf1b5e (patch) | |
| tree | c22229e5c138232d0c9ed84516ad5ce3d99ab41c /modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml | |
| parent | 3798dfdc346e482c9678dd376e6d1ebe5dd66714 (diff) | |
pam_motd: Export MOTD_SHOWN=pam after showing MOTD
This is a useful indication for update-motd profile.d snippet which can
also try to show MOTD when it is not already shown.
The use-case for that is showing MOTD in shells in containers without
PAM being involved.
* modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.c: Export MOTD_SHOWN=pam after showing MOTD
* modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml: Mention setting MOTD_SHOWN=pam in the man page
Diffstat (limited to 'modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml b/modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml index 4e2110c1..d939ad7e 100644 --- a/modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml +++ b/modules/pam_motd/pam_motd.8.xml @@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ <para> <command>ln -s /dev/null /etc/motd.d/my_motd</command> </para> + <para> + The <emphasis remap='B'>MOTD_SHOWN=pam</emphasis> environment variable + is set after showing the motd files, even when all of them were silenced + using symbolic links. + </para> </refsect1> <refsect1 id="pam_motd-options"> |