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Enter:

su -c "pico /etc/issue"

...and change the contents of the text file to whatever you want.

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Press Ctrl+O to save the file, then Ctrl+X to exit.

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When you reboot Linux the login message and the /etc/issue file you've just edited will return to the default. To prevent this, enter:

su -c "pico /etc/rc.d/rc.local"

...and begin each of the following lines (indicated in bold) with a hash (#) character so that Linux ignores them. If at any time you want the default login message to return, simply remove the offending hash characters.

# 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.
# echo "" > /etc/issue
# echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
# echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue

# cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
# echo >> /etc/issue
fi

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Press Ctrl+O to save the file, then Ctrl+X to exit.

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Either press Ctrl+D to log-out, or press Alt+F2 to switch to the second virtual terminal to see your new improved login message!