[Bug 1637800] Re: add a motd script for news

[Dustin Kirkland ]

@xnox:

Totally agreed on https.  I just uploaded that fix to zesty, defaulting
to https://motd.ubuntu.com (which exists now, it didn't at the time),
and enforcing that all URLs should start with https://.

The .timer systemd unit + caching + periodic refresh is interesting,
indeed.  I'll look into a rewrite of update-motd to do it this way.
What minimum version of systemd would I need for it to work this way?

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Title:
  add a motd script for news

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in base-files source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Add a new update-motd script for printing news and/or important
  notices.

  == SRU ==

  [IMPACT]
  We should add important security messages or other news to the MOTD.

  [TEST CASE]
  Login to the system and ensure that the "news" section of the motd is displayed.  Note that you might need to force trigger an update by running 'sudo update-motd'.

  [REGRESSION POTENTIAL]
  No reasonable regression potential.  The script simply prints 2 lines of text to the MOTD.

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