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Old 04-25-2002
motd for different users

Hi,

I was hoping to get some help on this question:

I have different groups of users logging into our servers and I would like to set it up so that when they login they could get an update from the motd.

How do I set it up so that I can have one group see a different motd than the system motd?

Thanks.

VJ
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Old 04-25-2002
I do not think there is a way to do it with the standard MOTD. You would have to write a custom script to handle it.
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