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login-banner
Syntax [no] login-banner
Context config>system>login-control
Description This command enables or disables the display of a login banner. The login banner contains the
7705 SAR copyright and build date information for a console login attempt.
The no form of the command causes only the configured pre-login-message and a generic login
prompt to display.
motd
Syntax motd {url url-prefix:source-url | text motd-text-string}
no motd
Context config>system>login-control
Description
This command creates the message of the day that is displayed after a successful console login.
Only one message can be configured.
The no form of the command removes the message.
Default no motd
Parameters url url-prefix: source-url — when the message of the day is present as a text file, provide both url-
text motd-text-string — the text of the message of the day. The motd-text-string must be enclosed in
pre-login-message
Syntax pre-login-message login-text-string [name]
no pre-login-message
Context config>system>login-control
Description This command creates a message displayed prior to console login attempts on the console via Telnet.
Only one message can be configured. If multiple pre-login-messages are configured, the last
message entered overwrites the previous entry.
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prefix and the source-url of the file containing the message of the day. The URL prefix can be
local or remote.
double quotes. Multiple text strings are not appended to one another.
Some special characters can be used to format the message text. The "\n" character creates multi-
line MOTDs and the "\r" character restarts at the beginning of the new line. For example,
entering "\n\r" will start the string at the beginning of the new line, while entering "\n" will start
the second line below the last character from the first line.
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