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How to change welcome splash screen on vagrant ssh?

In some (if not all) vagrant boxes, you can see some kind of welcome text/splash ascii/text available. which can be seen when you do vagrant ssh into the server. How can one implement this on creating a custom vagrant box? or modifying a already created vagrant box?

Solution

  • It's called MOTD, (Message of the Day).

    Located in /etc/motd.

    If you want to edit the content, use the text editor you preferred. I'm using nano.

    sudo nano /etc/motd

    Insert the text you need to put in, and save the file (ctrl+O in nano).

    P.S: By default, /etc/motd is linked to /var/run/motd and it resets every time you login. To make permanent changes, you should first remove the current file and then create a new one. follow the below steps:

    1. sudo rm /etc/motd
2. sudo nano /etc/motd

    then write and save the file.