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Yeah this is just overkill. I haven’t edited /etc/motd in a while so this was news to me but this is just code creep and makes me sad.
by jaequery 7y ago
Yeah this is just overkill. I haven’t edited /etc/motd in a while so this was news to me but this is just code creep and makes me sad.
- hedora 7y agoSame here. My reaction at each step is “how do you delete this subsystem?” and “what poor person wrote this?” Still, nice learning exercise for the author.
- pjc50 7y agoExactly. I'm sure somebody wanted it at some point somewhere, but now it's on every system. No wonder people keep starting new minimal Linux distros.
- edejong 7y agoThat. They could’ve just supplied a default .profile / .bashrc. It’s these kinds of bells and whistles that causes most security bugs due to additional attack surface. Is it the root user fetching the news with wget/curl from a remote source?
- enriquto 7y agoAll of systemd is the same shitfuckery. I move away from debian to slackware and voidlinux (when using BSD is not possible) just to avoid it.