I saw a very interesting video by Alex Kretzschmar about how to add a nice colorful login banner using Figurine that displays the hostname. I thought this would be helpful when working with several SSH sessions, so I added it to my hosts.
To start you need to download and install Figurine.
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wget https://github.com/arsham/figurine/releases/download/v1.3.0/figurine_linux_amd64_v1.3.0.tar.gz -O deploy.tar.gz
tar -xvf deploy.tar.gz
sudo mv deploy/figurine /usr/local/bin
Once it’s installed you can test it by running the following
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figurine -f "3d.flf" `hostname`
Now you can create the profile script that will run on login.
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sudo nano /etc/profile.d/figurine.sh
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echo ""
figurine -f "3d.flf" `hostname`
echo ""
You can test the file by running it manually.
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sh /etc/profile.d/figurine.sh
Now that the file is created, exit and ssh back in to test it. Also don’t forget to cleanup the download and unpacked files.
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rm -rf deploy*