Whenever I log into my RHEL8 server via SSH, I get these lines printed:
Web console: https://<myserver>:9090/ or https://<myip>:9090/
This system is not registered to Red Hat Insights. See https://cloud.redhat.com/
To register this system, run: insights-client --register
How do I disable those prompts?
I figured it out before I finished writing this question so I figured I'd just share this with anyone else.
# ls /etc/motd.d -lh
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Mar 12 19:46 cockpit -> /run/cockpit/motd
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 Jun 18 22:01 insights-client -> /etc/insights-client/insights-client.motd
Each one of those symlinks prints something to the SSH terminal on login. In this case, cockpit prints the web console message and insights-client prints the insights prompt.
Therefore just do this:
# cd /etc/motd.d
# [sudo] rm -f cockpit insights-client
Verified to work and persist across restart on RHEL8.4.
As this is caused mainly by the pam_motd.so PAM module the better approach is to comment it out in file /etc/pam.d/sshd, changing the line from
session optional pam_motd.so
to
# session optional pam_motd.so
After restarting the SSH daemon via
systemctl restart sshd
the messages will not be displayed, as well not MOTD a second time.
The configuration could be done via an Ansible task
- name: Make sure that it is removed Web console message on user login in RHEL 8
lineinfile:
path: /etc/pam.d/sshd
regexp: '^session optional pam_motd.so'
line: '# session optional pam_motd.so'
or via CLI and sed
sed -i 's/session optional pam_motd.so/# session optional pam_motd.so/g' /etc/pam.d/sshd
# or more generic
sed '/session optional pam_motd.so/s/^/# /g' /etc/pam.d/sshd
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