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

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 02:27:21 -0500, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 2:20?AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 1:41?AM Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > 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...
>> [...]
>> I don't receive the message, so I am not sure which file or script to disable.
>
>This may be helpful:
>
>$ sudo grep -iIR 'Expanded Security Maintenance' /etc
>/etc/ubuntu-advantage/help_data.yaml:      Expanded Security
>Maintenance for Applications is enabled by default
>/etc/ubuntu-advantage/help_data.yaml:     Expanded Security
>Maintenance for Infrastructure provides access
>
>It looks like it is coming from ubuntu-advantage:
>
>$ apt-cache search ubuntu-advantage
>ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon - Daemon to allow access to
>ubuntu-advantage via D-Bus
>ubuntu-advantage-tools - management tools for Ubuntu Pro
>ubuntu-advantage-pro - Additional services for Ubuntu Pro images
>

I wonder what that ubuntu-advantage-* is used for?

Googling: It seems like it cannot easily be gotten rid of either:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/ubuntu_advantage/



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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden