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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a bug in the /etc/pam.d/login configuration, which has:

session    optional   pam_motd.so  motd=/run/motd.dynamic noupdate
session    optional   pam_motd.so

This tells login to display the dynamic motd /without updating it/, and
then to call pam_motd again for the static motd... and updating the
dynamic file.  So the motd displayed will always be one run out of date.

The ssh package has this the correct way around:

session    optional     pam_motd.so  motd=/run/motd.dynamic
session    optional     pam_motd.so noupdate


** Package changed: pam (Ubuntu) => shadow (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

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Title:
  old motd is displayed on login

Status in “shadow” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  On Trusty, during login, the motd displayed is from the cache file
  /run/motd.dynamic. After being displayed, the scripts from /etc
  /update-motd.d are run to refresh /run/motd.dynamic. This behavior of
  displaying the cache first is not very convenient and didn't happen on
  Precise. This is also does not match the documentation (man 5 update-
  motd) nor the users' expectations.

  Steps to reproduce:

  $ cat << "EOF" | sudo tee /etc/update-motd.d/60-test
  #!/bin/sh
  printf "motd from: $(date +%T)\n"
  EOF
  $ sudo chmod +x /etc/update-motd.d/60-test

  
  $ echo 'echo "real time: $(date +%T)";exit' | ssh -T localhost
  Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64)

   * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
  motd from: 6:05:43
  real time: 12:36:14

  The above is just an example of how old/stale the output can be.

  More details:

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04
  $ apt-cache policy libpam-modules
  libpam-modules:
    Installed: 1.1.8-1ubuntu2
    Candidate: 1.1.8-1ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 1.1.8-1ubuntu2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: libpam-modules 1.1.8-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Sep 12 12:22:09 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-26 (228 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140124)
  SourcePackage: pam
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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