Change login message using GNOME

SUSE Product Topics SLES Configure-Administer
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Hi all,

I am receiving following message directly after successful login before being forwarded to the desktop (so I am still on the login screen before pressing the okay button): “System-wide number of failed logins: 0”. I would like to add the time of the last successful login to this message but unfortunately I cannot find its origin anywhere and hence cannot change it. Does anyone have an idea where I could find and adjust this login message?

I am using SLES9 and GNOME 2.4 (not my decission).

It would also be fine to introduce a second message which contains the last successful login. I tried to do this by creating the file ​/etc/xdg/autostart/welcome.desktop and filling it with the text but there was no effect. I can neither use xmessages nor zenity like suggested in another thread because they are not installed (e.g. no /etc/x11 directory) and I cannot add new packages.

I just need a message appearing after successful login to show me the last successful login and all failed logins since. In the console I have realised this already using pam and motd but I have problems doing the same in the graphical interface (GNOME).

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Okay, I found the solution. The text field is specified inside:
/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup

Thereby I changed the line
echo -e “$FAILLOG

System-wide number of failed logins: $FAILED_LOGINS” | $xmessage -default okay -center -file -

into
cat /etc/motd | $xmessage -default okay -center -file -

So the login messages I am already dynamically creating inside motd are displayed for GNOME as well.

The thread can be closed.

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On 05/08/16 15:24, Stargazer89 wrote:
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Okay, I found the solution. The text field is specified inside:
/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup

Thereby I changed the line
echo -e “$FAILLOG

System-wide number of failed logins:
$FAILED_LOGINS” | $xmessage -default okay -center -file -

into
cat /etc/motd | $xmessage -default okay -center -file -

So the login messages I am already dynamically creating inside motd are
displayed for GNOME as well.

The thread can be closed.[/color]

Thanks for taking the time to report back as the above may help someone
else.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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