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How can I disable/modify the SSH login banner for a given user?

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I think it is located at /etc/motd. Try editing that file and see – sagarchalise Mar 31 '11 at 9:33
I did edit it but the changes are always overwritten by this default message. – Olivier Lalonde Mar 31 '11 at 9:36
ubuntugeek.com/… says there is /etc/motd.tail file you should edit for ubuntu server. – sagarchalise Mar 31 '11 at 9:40

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It seems it is possible to disable this message on a user basis by creating an empty file in a user's $HOME directory (/home/username/) called .hushlogin.

touch ~/.hushlogin
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If you want to disable that message for all ssh users, edit /etc/pam.d/sshd and comment out the lines

session    optional     pam_motd.so  motd=/run/motd.dynamic noupdate
session    optional     pam_motd.so # [1]
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