How to configure a linux server to log on to a testing machine and find that a line of 'Welcome to Cloudex 'is displayed before ps1. In linux, you can set the/etc/issue and/etc/motd files to implement such login welcome information. When logging on to a test machine, we found that a line of Welcome information from 'Welcome to Cloudex 'was displayed before ps1. In linux, you can set the/etc/issue and/etc/motd files to implement such login welcome information. Open/etc/issue. There are already two lines of centos5 information in it. Add here and try again, save and quit, and then re-run the ssh server. The result is still default: Connecting to 192.168.0.1: 22... Connection established. Escape character is '^ @]'. Last login: Tue May 18 16:04:38 2010 from 192.168.1.1 [root @ test ~] # Take a closer look. It seems that this file takes effect only after restart. Modify motd and log out again. No, it's strange. Check/etc/ssh/sshd_config, and you will see a PrintMotd no in it !? Change to PrintMotd yes,/etc/init. d/sshd restart; exit and re-log in. If the welcome information in the previously uninstalled motd is shown in the following figure: haha: Last login: Tue May 18 16:04:38 2010 from 192.168.1.2 haha, I'm Raocl!