Display a static login message by creating /etc/motd.

↪ attributes/banner.rb
↪ recipes/banner.rb
↪ templates/*/etc_motd.erb
↪ templates/*/etc_profile.d_info.sh.erb
↪ tests/roles/sys_banner_test.rb

Attributes

All attributes in node.sys.banner:

• message (required) text normally describing the purpose of the node.
• header (optional) text printed in front of the banner message.
• footer (optional) text printed after the banner message.
• info (default true) deploys a script in /etc/profile.d/info.sh displaying system statistics and information about the Chef deployment.

Example

A generic role for the infrastructure may contain global header and footer content.

[...SNIP]
default_attributes(
  "sys" => {
    "banner" => {
      "header" => "Welcome to Linux...",
      "footer" => "Report problems by sending mails to devops@localhost"
    }
    [...SNIP...]
  }
  [...SNIP...]
)

For specific roles/nodes the message describes the hosts purpose.

[...SNIP...]
"sys" => {
  "banner" => {
    "message" => "Interactive login pool to huge compute cluster"
  }
  [...SNIP...]