Re: MOTD implementation in gnome-session

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Mark McLoughlin">

> 	I the first thing worth discussing is "why?". Why is it a good idea to
> show /etc/motd at login?

It's very handy for sysadmins to display information to the user at login.
I've used zenity and very bad gnome-session hacks for this in the past. Our
audience of desktop systems administrators will appreciate the feature.

- Jeff

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