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Security Command Reference
136 7705 SAR OS System Management Guide
motd
Syntax motd {url url-prefix:source-url | text motd-text-string}
no motd
Context config>system>login-control
Description This command creates the message of the day that is displayed after a successful console login. Only
one message can be configured.
The no form of the command removes the message.
Default no motd
Parameters url-prefix: source-url — when the message of the day is present as a text file, provide both the
url-prefix and the source-url of the file containing the message of the day. The URL
prefix can be local or remote.
motd-text-string — the text of the message of the day. The motd-text-string must be enclosed in
double quotes. Multiple text strings are not appended to one another.
Some special characters can be used to format the message text. The “\n” character creates
multi-line MOTDs and the “\r” character restarts at the beginning of the new line. For
example, entering “\n\r” will start the string at the beginning of the new line, while entering
“\n” will start the second line below the last character from the first line.
pre-login-message
Syntax pre-login-message login-text-string [name]
no pre-login-message
Context config>system>login-control
Description This command creates a message displayed prior to console login attempts on the console via Telnet.
Only one message can be configured. If multiple pre-login-messages are configured, the last message
entered overwrites the previous entry.
The system name can be added to an existing message without affecting the current pre-login-
message.
The no form of the command removes the message.
Default no pre-login-message
Parameters login-text-string — a text string, up to 900 characters. Any printable, 7-bit ASCII characters can
be used. If the string contains special characters (#, $, spaces, etc.), the entire string must be
enclosed within double quotes.
name — when the keyword name is defined, the configured system name is always displayed
first in the login message. To remove the name from the login message, the message must be
cleared and a new message entered without the name.