motd

Pre-login SSH warning banner and dynamic system-status MOTD for Linux

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motd is a free, open-source tool that generates a legally-worded pre-login SSH warning banner and a dynamic post-login system dashboard for Linux servers, from one shared configuration so every host in a fleet renders identical output. The post-login dashboard summarizes the health of 30+ common infrastructure daemons, security signals like fail2ban bans and blocklist size, and disk/memory usage, with zero runtime dependencies and a login-time budget under two seconds. It's for sysadmins managing a fleet of Linux servers who are tired of hand-written, drifting login banners and want a consistent, auditable one instead.

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