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Q&A Lynis says my /etc/issue is weak - how to strengthen?

It turns out, that Lynis test code lives in /usr/share/lynis/include/test_banners which gave me a way to find what banner is considered good. :-) In my case, it's to have 5 or more specific keyword...

posted 6mo ago by LAFK‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar LAFK‭ · 2023-11-15T21:40:03Z (6 months ago)
It turns out, that Lynis test code lives in `/usr/share/lynis/include/test_banners` which gave me a way to find what banner is considered good. :-) In my case, it's to have 5 or more specific keywords.

Both banners are being shown to users logging in via SSH, locally or through the network, and yes, these are more on the legal/repudiation/audit side than actual hard defenses.

And the `\l` is a... **getty** escape sequence. And `man agetty` was the right place to search, but not for `\l` but just for `^ *l`, this yielded few hits, among them: 

    l
        Insert the name of the current tty line.