Securing the FreeBSD Console by removing OS Version

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:35:31AM -0500, Ray Seals wrote:
> It was the /etc/motd file.  I had already edited the file but failed to
> take out the top line.  I was trying to make this harder than it really
> was.

You realise that if someone can log in to the system they can
trivially discover the OS and OS version by querying the kernel?  As a
"security measure" this change has zero benefit.

Kris
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