Display a ASCII Message After SSH Login
Sometimes when you want to provide remote access to your system via SSH, you want to display a customized message on the terminal for the remotely logged-in user. In this tutorial, I will show you how to display a custom ASCII text and text message upon SSH login to your Linux server.
Requirement
You need to have installed SSH
Let's Displaying a Message
For displaying a ASCII text or normal text in linux or any other distro ,you will to perform the following steps:
Step 1 :- First you need to open a MOTD or create a file on your system with the COMMAND shown below.
┌──(hackerboy㉿KumarAtulJaiswal)-[~]
└─$ sudo nano /etc/motd
┌──(hackerboy㉿KumarAtulJaiswal)-[~]
└─$
and once this file is created or open (as you can see i have already this file in our linux system ), you can type in any messages or ASCII text as of your choice just like we did. After that, you can save this file and exit.
ASCII Creator - CLICK HERE
Step 2 :- Check your system IP
Step 3 :- Log into your machine through SSH to Display the message.
You need to log into your machine through SSH by executing the following command. You can either run this command on your own machine’s terminal or you can even use any other machine on the same network for serving the very same purpose.
┌──(hackerboy㉿KumarAtulJaiswal)-[~]
└─$ sudo su
KumarAtulJaiswal# ssh hackerboy@192.168.43.152
hackerboy@192.168.43.152's password:
Linux KumarAtulJaiswal 5.10.0-kali8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.40-1kali1 (2021-05-31) x86_64
The programs included with the Kali GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Kali GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
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