* James Antill <ja...@fedoraproject.org> [20091106 16:14]: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:50 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see: > > > > 34 packages can be updated. > > 10 updates are security updates. > > > > I think this is a nice feature, because many administrators will log > > in to servers remotely over ssh and never see the graphical > > indications from packagekit et al. > > > > Actually I was trying to work out how it's implemented. The text goes > > into /etc/motd, and as near as I can tell, the Ubuntu "update-manager" > > (roughly equivalent of PackageKit) rewrites it whenever packages > > become available or get installed. Is this something that PackageKit > > could also do? > > FWIW, I've added a summary-updateinfo command to the increasingly > misnamed security plugin. > Takes all the same options as list-updateinfo / info-updateinfo, but > just prints a small summary: > > % yum -q summary-updateinfo > Updates Info Summary: > 6 Security update(s) > 56 Bugfix update(s) > 10 Enhancement update(s) > % yum -q summary-updateinfo new > Updates Info Summary: > 706 New Package update(s) > % > > ...putting that in motd, or whatever, is your fight :). >
Which can be trivially cron'ed. Then the Match parameter can be equally trivially set up in sshd_config for root / selected administrative users to display a separate motd to everyone else. Addresses the "security" concerns and provides a useful feature. No? -- Anders Rayner-Karlsson <and...@trudheim.co.uk> All-Round Linux Tinkerer, RHCE and PITA DeLuxe -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
