Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:03:44 -0500
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:54:57PM -0500, alex wrote:

> The .hushlogin, while it did remove the version info also removed the  
> MOTD msg, which was not really what I wanted but I guess thats the  
> best that I could hope for. And to answer some question that were  
> going back and forth on the list as to why I wanted remove the  
> version line, was it for security?....heck no, there are plenty of  
> ways to get that information in fact this computer is firewalled and  
> no one has access to it anyway, it was just an eyesore and on top of  
> that its my computer so I can do with it what I please=)

Fair enough! :)

Kris

Received on Thu Feb 09 2006 - 19:03:49 UTC

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