{"id":5230,"date":"2014-07-22T19:49:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T09:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2018-12-11T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:43:27","slug":"basics-customising-the-nmc-login-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/basics-customising-the-nmc-login-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Basics &#8211; Customising the NMC login screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most companies will have their own standard-usage policy. Log into most Unix, Linux or Windows servers these days and you&#8217;ll see some message regarding who can be authorised to access the system, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those messages can run into&nbsp;<em>pages<\/em> depending on what company has written them, but they can equally be constrained by the options available in the individual system.<\/p>\n<p>NetWorker Management Console does allow for a brief (80 character) message to be set as the login banner. Normally this is a simple warning indicating that only authorised users can log in. But it can be set relatively easily. For instance, on my lab server it reads:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_00.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5231\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_00.png\" alt=\"You darn kids get off my lawn!\" width=\"496\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_00.png 496w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_00-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_00-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_00-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_00-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_00-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Setting the greeting message is very straight forward. In NetWorker Management Console, go to&nbsp;<em>Setup<\/em> and from within Setup, choose the <em>Setup|System Options&#8230;<\/em> menu item:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5232\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_01.png\" alt=\"NMC System Options\" width=\"464\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_01.png 464w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_01-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a>The login banner message is set in the very first field:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5233\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_02.png\" alt=\"Entering the login message text\" width=\"538\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_02.png 538w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/login_banner_02-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a>While brief at 80 characters (no carriage return symbols can be input), the ability to set the login banner can help meet security requirements in some companies, so don&#8217;t forget it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most companies will have their own standard-usage policy. Log into most Unix, Linux or Windows servers these days and you&#8217;ll&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1180,633,638],"class_list":["post-5230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basics","tag-login-banner","tag-networker-management-console","tag-nmc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-1mm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}