"Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications" shown every time I log on!

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 16:09:39 -0600, Keith <keithw at caramail.com> wrote:

>> How can I get rid of this message and speed up the logon?
>> 
>> I do *not* need any extra functionality and there are no humans logged on except
>> occationally when I am doing maintenance via SSH.
>> 
>> 
>
>The motd is dynamically generated from scripts in the 
>/etc/update-motd.d/ directory. To turn off motd completely, edit 
>/etc/pam.d/login and comment out the line, "session optional 
>pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic". Or, you can change the motd back to 
>a static, admin-controlled file by setting motd=/etc/motd and creating 
>your own motd file in /etc.

I looked inside and I don't get much of it...

I would not like to completely ditch the greeting message but rather get rid of
the commercial for this "Expanded Security" subscription, and the long delay
after entering my user credentials until the start screen appears.

It was working fine until this stuff appeared...

Right now when I logged on to check your suggestion it showed:

-----------------------------------
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-144-generic x86_64)

 System information disabled due to load higher than 1.0

 * Introducing Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications.
   Receive updates to over 25,000 software packages with your
   Ubuntu Pro subscription. Free for personal use.

     https://ubuntu.com/pro

Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications is not enabled.

0 updates can be applied immediately.

6 additional security updates can be applied with ESM Apps.
Learn more about enabling ESM Apps service at https://ubuntu.com/esm


Last login: Thu Mar  9 12:41:27 2023 from 10.8.121.2
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So now the server that is running at basically no load (0.4%) as shown by top
has a problem on the login screen:

"System information disabled due to load higher than 1.0"

I bet it is caused by the "Expanded Security" ad screwing up the system...

I want to keep my logon screen as it was *before* this appeared!


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden