As with any user agent string sent by any web browser, the intention is such that the server can customize the response appropriately for user.
e.g. There may be a bug that affects ARM64 users, but not any other architecture. There might be a kernel vulnerability that is only exploitable machines that have been running a long time, or perhaps machines which are definitely not vulnerable to a regression, if they've been running for longer than the regression. In this way, the news server can generate the most relevant message-of-the-day for a given system. Or, hopefully, everything is hunky dory, and then we can wish Grace Hopper or Alan Turing a happy birthday (a la Google Doodle) in your Ubuntu system's MOTD :-) Moreover, it's always easy to disable or customize the urls to the local user or administrator's liking, or firewall it off entirely. The goal is useful, helpful, tailored information in the MOTD. To actually make the "message of the day", a dynamically and informative "message of the day". Cheers! Dustin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to base-files in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637800 Title: add a motd script for news Status in base-files package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in base-files source package in Xenial: In Progress Bug description: Add a new update-motd script for printing news and/or important notices. == SRU == [IMPACT] We should add important security messages or other news to the MOTD. [TEST CASE] Login to the system and ensure that the "news" section of the motd is displayed. Note that you might need to force trigger an update by running 'sudo update-motd'. [REGRESSION POTENTIAL] No reasonable regression potential. The script simply prints 2 lines of text to the MOTD. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1637800/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
