login message

ok does any one know how i can get it so that when users login they see a login message that i wrote? i found that if i go to like userconfig or something i can get to a tab that looks like i might be able to fill in my Owen message but it wont let me write in the box can someone help me

/etc/issue contains what you see on the console when you log in and /etc/motd is where you can put a "message of the day" for people to see when they log in.

You can modify /etc/issue and /etc/motd as rockdw suggested, but if when you start you don't see the desired message, check your /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Some distro's put some code in here that will overwrite your /etc/issue every time you boot.

Mine looks like this:

   # This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot.  So, make any changes you
    # want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.

    if [ -x /usr/bin/linux_logo ];then
	/usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f | sed -e 's|\\|\\\\|g' > /etc/issue
	echo "" >> /etc/issue
    else
	> /etc/issue
    fi
    echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
    echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m) / \l" >> /etc/issue

It's easier to comment out all this part (add # in front of every line) and your file won't be overwritten!

And modify /etc/issue.net for network logins. I'am guessing most of the users will be logged via ssh or telnet, and they will get /etc/issue.net and /etc/motd as messages.
HTH
-NSKL