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gmotd

☕️ About

gmotd is a configurable, dynamic motd generator, written in go.

🚀 Installation

# using go directly
$ go install github.com/jon4hz/gmotd@latest

# from aur (btw)
$ yay -S gmotd-bin

# local pkg manager
$ VERSION=v0.1.0

## debian / ubuntu
$ dpkg -i gmotd-$VERSION-linux-amd64.deb

## rhel / fedora / suse
$ rpm -i gmotd-$VERSION-linux-amd64.rpm

## alpine
$ apk add --allow-untrusted gmotd-$VERSION-linux-amd64.apk

# homebrew (macOS & linux)
$ brew install jon4hz/homebrew-tap/gmotd

✨ Usage

📦 Standalone

You can use gmotd as standalone binary by executing gmotd.

$ gmotd

🔌 PAM

To automatically display the message of the day, you can use the pam_exec module to execute gmotd.
For example by adding the following line to /etc/pam.d/sshd.

session    optional     pam_exec.so stdout /usr/bin/gmotd

📝 Configuration

gmotd loads it's configuration from the following locations:

  1. gmotd.yml
  2. ~/.config/gmotd/gmotd.yml
  3. /etc/gmotd/gmotd.yml

First come, first serve.

📸 Preview

Preview

🥂 Credits

  • yboetz/motd (not sure if you'll notice any similarities tho)