pam_motd — Display the motd file ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DESCRIPTION pam_motd is a PAM module that can be used to display arbitrary motd (message of the day) files after a successful login. By default the /etc/motd file is shown. The message size is limited to 64KB. OPTIONS motd=/path/filename The /path/filename file is displayed as message of the day. EXAMPLES The suggested usage for /etc/pam.d/login is: session optional pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd AUTHOR pam_motd was written by Ben Collins .